suzette malveaux is a professor of law at catholic university's columbus school of law. richard samp is with the washington legal foundation, a public interest law firm. >> suzette malveaux, i'll start with you. you wrote on behalf of the women bringing the suit, how significant was today's ruling for them starting with them? >> this ruling was very significant. in fact this was sort of a devastating block, i think, to employees who are challenging systemic discrimination nationwide against an employer like wal-mart or of the magnitude of an employer that size. and so you know, the supreme court basically killed this class action and it is going to be very difficult now or certainly there's a higher standard for employees who are bringing these kinds of massive cases together to come together and bring those resources together and challenge nationwide discrimination in one case. >> brown: i will explore the class action implications in a moment. but first richard samp you argued on behalf of wal-mart. why was this important to the company? and to other companies? >> the