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New America Media: With the U.S. Supreme Court set to hear arguments Tuesday on whether a sex-discrimination suit against Wal-Mart can proceed as a class action, Nina Martin spoke with the former executive director of Equal Rights Advocates, Nina Herrera, about why the outcome is important to women and minorities. Martin writes, “Many pro-worker advocates are worried that the court — which has made a number of extremely conservative rulings in recent years — will decimate the ability of ordinary people to join together in class actions to sue large, well-financed companies that engage in wrongdoing and discriminate against women and minorities.”