body? and that person got a response. quote. it must be planted near the surface of the body because the human body absorbs shock. the transportation security administration chief says he has no plans to start searching the body cavities of anybody at airports, at least not yet now. he says the fuse or detonator would still have to be outside the body and that x-ray scanners would spot that. california s battle over whether gay couples can get married is back in court and in a big way. and this time the tv cameras are now allowed. we re live with the latest on proposition 8 and whether it s constitutional. plus, wal-mart, world s largest private employer at the center now of the biggest employment class action case in american history. and now that case is going to the u.s. supreme court. what it means to people across this nation next on the fox report. [ man ] i thought o famy business would always be boots.
here is the answer from the attorney in support. have to have orwellian measures designed to police fertility before marriage orwell ian marriages unknown marriages childless. those measures would undoubtedly violate the constitutional rights. whatever decision this 3-judge panel makes, it can be appealed to the full ninth circuit and then, of course, shep, an to the supreme court. shepard: trace gallagher on to los angeles. thank you. the highest court in the land is set to decide whether a huge lawsuit against wal-mart can go to trial. the mega store faces a gender discrimination suit that it called the largest employment class action case in american history. it could involve up to 1.5 million women who either worked or currently work at a wal-mart. the suit claims the company pays women less than men and promotes women less frequently.
there s so much movement that comes out of vital voices in the u.s., what secretary clinton has done, putting so much focus on women s ears. there are real legal challenges. there s a case the supreme court accepted yesterday. in fact, our parent company was one of the friends of the court. we should point out. general electric, owner of nbc. but this was the big walmart case. the class action case. whether or not that case proceeds, there are plenty of data that women are paid less. that s a known fact. and have bigger challenges in business. well, i think our focus is really about women as the third billion. there s a report recently written talking to the global economic impact of this third billion of women entering the middle class having as much global economic impact as that of china and india. so for any company like coca cola, it s absolutely critical that we figure out how to advance and progress women in
court is facing a big decision about the biggest retailer in the world, the supreme court could soon decide, perhaps as early as tomorrow, whether to take up an appeal from walmart. on a lawsuit that alleges the retail giant discriminated against women in pay and promotion with one-and-a-half million female employees involved in the class action case and could be the biggest job bias lawsuit in world history, and that would be enormous implications. let s take it to our legal panel, mercedes colwin, and paul cowan, professor of media law at seton hall university, good to see you both. is it possible a single lawsuit involving a landful of women in northern california can somehow turn itself into a huge class-action lawsuit, involving 1.5 million women and 3400 stores? outrageous the lower court did actually that. and they certified this class, and, frankly, if you look at the
profits. what attorneys are arguing, tony, is that basically the economic damage to consumers is that they can t resell their car for the same amount of money. got you. sort of a hide brid argument. may we need to parse it out a little bit but 89 suits now. do you think this is going to be ultimately consolidated maybe into one big single class action case? i think there s no question, tony, that that is exactly what s going to happen. there s going to be a hearing march 25th in san diego, california. a judge is going to determine whether or not all those suits should be consolidated into one. i don t think there s any question that the judge will determine a lead plaintiff and definitely decide that they should be one large class action lawsuit. so how do these typically speaking, how do these class action lawsuits work for consumers? do they work out pretty well for consumers? you know, i don t think so. they can work out in the sense that some public policy may come out