Problem: In Walmart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes where female employees of Walmart stores had filed claims of gender discrimination in terms of pay and promotions Walmart claimed that it was entitled to individualized determinations of each employee's eligibility for backpay and other relief and therefore the employee claims should not be lumped together in a class action lawsuit. The Supreme Court on appeal: Group of answer choices rejected the appeal of Walmart and held that the female employees can be treated as a class, and that relief can be provided by adopting a sampling procedure similar to the one adopted in Hilao. disparaged the use of a sample to determine damages for sex discrimination as a "trial by formula." upheld the decision of the Ninth Circuit in Dukes v. Walmart. none of the above.