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Hi and welcome to Amicus, Slates Podcasts about the US Supreme Court.

I'm Diallithmic Slates Supreme Court correspondent.

One of the issues that the Supreme Court has been drilling deeply into in the last couple

of years is the question of class action litigation.

It is certainly the case that the Roberts Court has been slowly eroding the possibility

of bringing a class action suit.

And that's in response to the argument made by big businesses that class actions have

simply become frivolous and costly and don't even benefit the workers that they seek to

help.

This week, the Court looked at one of four class action cases that it has agreed to hear

this year, this involving a $5.8 million judgment against Tyson Foods Incorporated in a class

action that claimed that they had underpaid their workers at a storm lake Iowa pork plant.

Why?

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