The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected a class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart. The destroyer of Mom and Pop shops across the country was being sued by 1.5 million female workers claiming they had been discriminated against on the basis of gender. Had the class action suit been allowed to proceed it would have been the largest in history. The nine justices saved Wal-Mart from potentially having to pay tens of billions of dollars in back pay and punitive damage. —-
From now on, call me “Justice.”
NATO has confirmed that a bombing attempt on Muammar Gaddafi resulted in the deaths of civilians in the residential neighborhood of Tripoli. Sunday marked the first time NATO has acknowledged that a military mishap had resulted in civilian deaths in Libya, just a day after evidence confirmed that a vehicle carrying Allied rebel fighters was struck by a NATO weapon. The Libyan government says another 15 people were killed by NATO on Sunday during an airstrike on a compound owned by Khweildi Hmeidi, a senior official with ties to Gaddafi. At least six members of Hmeidi’s family were killed during the attack.
”NATO regrets the loss of innocent civilian lives and takes great care in conducting strikes against a regime determined to use violence against its own citizens,” Lieutenant General Charles Bouchard, the Canadian commander of the alliance’s mission in Libya, said on Sunday after the civilian deaths in Tripoli.
NATO said it intended to strike a military missile site but ”a weapons system failure” appeared to ”have caused a number of civilian casualties’.”
The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected a class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart. The destroyer of Mom and Pop shops across the country was being sued by 1.5 million female workers claiming they had been discriminated against on the basis of gender. Had the class action suit been allowed to proceed it would have been the largest in history. The nine justices saved Wal-Mart from potentially having to pay tens of billions of dollars in back pay and punitive damage.
David Carney, longtime top adviser to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, said this morning that the Republican is “50-50” on whether he will run for president next year. Perry fanned the fires during his speech at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans this weekend. Departing the stage, people chanted, “Run, Rick, Run,” according to numerous news accounts. It’s unclear if the crowd “meant run for president” or “run, you just said a lot of stupid shit during your speech which has made us all very emotional!”
Alyssa Campanella, 21, of Los Angeles, has been crowned the new Miss USA. The newly crowned beauty says she agrees with the legalization of medicinal marijuana, but otherwise it should be illegal and that she is a huge science geek. “I was taught evolution in high school. I do believe in it. I’m a huge science geek … I like to believe in the big bang theory and, you know, the evolution of humans throughout time.”
Jackass veteran Ryan Dunn died in a car crash in Pennsylvania early this morning, according to TMZ. The 34-year-old and an unidentified person both died in the crash, which happened around 3 a.m. on Route 322.
This article appears in Jun 15-21, 2011.