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Netflix said in a news release that the show follows "three powerful women whose lives were inextricably intertwined with the world's largest company: a Walmart heiress, a maverick executive, and a longtime Walmart saleswoman and preacher who dared to fight against the retail giant in the biggest class-action lawsuit in U.S. history."
Betty Dukes, who died in 2017, was a greeter at a Walmart store in California when she and five other employees sued the Bentonville-based retailer in 2001. They claimed they were paid less than male colleagues, who also received more promotions. The U.S. Supreme Court ended the case in 2011 by dissolving the certified class.
Walmart had argued that it had a strong nondiscriminatory policy in place well before the suit was filed. In a brief statement Thursday, Walmart said, "We are proud of the progress we've made as a company on treating all of our associates with respect."
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It's the result of a 2022 class-action lawsuit that accused Walmart of overcharging for certain products "to deceivingly, misleadingly, and unjustly pilfer, to Walmart's financial benefit, its customers' hard-earned grocery dollars."
Payments will be delivered electronically, either through Venmo, Zelle, an ACH or a virtual prepaid Mastercard, or claimants can request paper checks. The settlement administrator warns that the money may not hit customers' accounts right away.
According to the Wal-Mart Netflix DVD monopoly class action lawsuit, the pact was culminated on May 19, 2005 when the companies announced Wal-Mart.com would stop renting DVDs online and Netflix would not offer them for resale. The agreement was made after Blockbuster began offering DVD rentals online, and is believed to have been established to push Blockbuster out of the market. The result, however, is that Netflix customers paid higher subscription prices because of the alleged pact, according to the class action lawsuit. More information about the alleged pact can be found at www.OnlineDVDClass.com.
Wal-Mart denied any such pact was made, but agreed in January 2011 to settle its portion of the online DVD monopoly class action lawsuit. Netflix also denied the pact, but refused to offer a settlement. A federal judge dismissed the case against Netflix in November 2011, ruling there was not enough evidence to prove Netflix had conspired with Wal-Mart to fix the online DVD market.
Class Members of the Wal-Mart online DVD class action settlement include any person or entity living in the United States or Puerto Rico that paid a subscription fee to rent DVDs online from Netflix any time from May 19, 2005 to September 2, 2011.
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Kings of America hails from creator Jess Kimball Leslie, a journalist/author who will write the script and serve as an executive producer on the series, which follows three powerful women whose lives were inextricably intertwined with the world's largest company -- a Walmart heiress, a maverick executive, and a longtime Walmart saleswoman and preacher who dared to fight against the retail giant in the biggest class action lawsuit in U.S. history.
Clearly, this is one hell of a package that Netflix just acquired, and it arrives just one day after Collider reported that the streamer was in negotiations to acquire Adams' long-delayed thriller The Woman in the Window. Meanwhile, McKay had been prepping Netflix's star-studded comedy Don't Look Up when the pandemic hit, and it remains to be seen when that project will ultimately go before cameras.
McKay just signed on to produce an HBO limited series about the global hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine, and you can click here to read more about that project. As for Adams, she recently signed on to produce and star in Annapurna's dark comedy Nightbitch, and you can read more about that wild-sounding project right here.
The actor and director, who previously collaborated on 2006's Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and 2018's Vice, are reuniting for a new limited Netflix series about the largest class action lawsuit in this country's history. Get the details below.
Netflix's See What's Next account shared the news from today's Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour that Adams will star in and executive produce Kings of America, a limited series about "three women whose lives were intertwined: a Walmart heiress, a maverick executive, and a Walmart saleswoman who dared to fight the retail giant in the biggest class action lawsuit in U.S. history." It's unclear which role Adams will play, but she's one of the most talented performers of her generation and her abilities are so vast and varied that she would deliver spellbinding work in any of those three key roles. McKay will direct the first episode of Kings of America and will executive produce the series.
The series hails from Jess Kimball Leslie, a writer and tech analyst who published a book in 2017 called I Love My Computer Because My Friends Are In It. This will be her first produced television series. She'll write and serve as an executive producer alongside Diana Son (Genius: Aretha, 13 Reasons Why), who will be this series' showrunner.
This will be Amy Adams' latest TV series appearance of the past several years. She popped up as one of Jim's girlfriends in a multi-episode arc on The Office in 2005-2006 (remember that?), and then went on to pick up an Emmy nomination for her starring role in HBO's sweaty, shocking, 2018 mystery series Sharp Objects. Earlier in the 2000s, she showed up on Smallville, The West Wing, and Dr. Vegas and lent her voice to King of the Hill.
But earlier this year, Walmart (WMT) showed how times have changed. It tested a system that scanned the face of everyone entering several of its stores, identified suspected shoplifters, and instantly alerted store security on their mobile devices.
Retailers using FaceFirst do not, however, save a photo record of everyone coming in the store. Instead, the software is set to find matches against an existing gallery of alleged offenders. Images of innocent shoppers are discarded. Stores only retain photos of suspects (or people who resemble them) who security staff have previously flagged.
A handful of national retailers contacted by Fortune revealed little: Home Depot says it does not use face scanning software. Walgreens says it has no contract with FaceFirst, and added it does not discuss specific security measures. Target, meanwhile, would not confirm or deny if the company uses the software.
The only company that acknowledged using the software was Walmart. According to a spokesperson, the retailer tested facial recognition software in stores across several states for several months, but then discontinued the practice earlier this year.
The explanation suggests that any savings Walmart had by reducing shoplifting failed to offset the cost of deploying and using the technology. The company declined to discuss any specifics about how many suspected shoplifters it identified or describe the accuracy of the software.
Facial recognition software is hardly new. Casinos have used it for years as has the military and law enforcement, but it has remained controversial A program giving facial recognition-equipped iPads and smartphones to all San Diego police officers is under scrutiny, in part due to a New York Times report that suggested police may be forcing innocent people to be scanned.
However, not everyone is comfortable with companies using their face like this. In Illinois, consumers have filed class action suits against Facebook and photo-service Shutterfly for violating a state law related to biometrics. In European countries and Canada, meanwhile, automated photo tagging features are unavailable because regulators are uneasy about their privacy implications.
He explained that the debate turns on whether companies must notify shoppers that they are using the technology, or offer opt-out options. However, an initiative to create rules fell apart last summer when nine privacy groups quit a Commerce Department working group, saying industry would not agree to even basic boundaries on facial recognition. Since then, civil liberties groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation continue to decry the lack of oversight.
As for the federal government, Neuburger says the Federal Trade Commission could conceivably try to regulate the industry under its unfair trade practice authority, but that the agency is not able to create news laws on its own. Meanwhile, he says Congress is unlikely to pass sweeping laws about privacy and facial recognition anytime soon.
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