She teaches civil procedure and employment discrimination law. Updated June 21, 2011, 11:02 AM The most striking and disturbing thing about the Supreme Court’s decision in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Dukes is the hostility evinced by the five-justice majority toward efforts of working women to address systemic workplace discrimination. In siding with Wal-Mart, the Supreme Court has made it nearly impossible for discrimination plaintiffs to proceed as a class.