please welcome suzette malveaux. [applause] >> thank you how much for having me here. i'm going to address one of the issues that is squarely before the supreme court. it is little technical so bear with me but it is very important. and the question here is whether or not the plaintiffs in walmart can seek monetary relief under this particular class-action rule and if they can, under what circumstances can they seek that monetary relief and then let it back and think about why is that important to employment discrimination cases? first of all, as was mentioned before rule 23 is what we are looking at. rule 23 t. two in particular but it is appropriate if you have it defendant that acts in a way that is broadly applicable to most people in the class, then it is appropriate to have a class-action, and they are seeking an injunction or maybe a declaration. so for example if everybody is challenging the same general practice, the same sort of systemic conduct in the workplace, everybody pretty much shares the same goal. if we share that same goal, then we are united in and