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Litigation

Jun. 24, 2011

Apple Jumps on Dukes Bandwagon in Antitrust Suit

Lawyers for Apple Inc. on Wednesday became some of the first in the country to try applying the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the sexual discrimination lawsuit Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Dukes to other types of class actions.


By Jill Redhage


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Lawyers for Apple Inc. on Wednesday became among the first in the country to try applying to their own case the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in a sexual discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc.


Two days after the Supreme Court ruled 1.6 million women couldn't proceed as a class against Wal-Mart, San Francisco-based Jones Day partner Robert A. Mittelstaedt filed papers argu...

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