The U.S. Supreme Court, which on Monday dismissed a class-action lawsuit involving up to 1.5 million women who sued Wal-Mart for gender discrimination, cited the work of three University of Virginia law professors who have criticized the empirical methodology behind the plaintiffs' argument. ... The majority opinion cites a Virginia Law Review article by Monahan, Walker and U.Va. law professor Greg Mitchell criticizing Bielby's testimony for not studying Wal-Mart's employment practices through accepted social science research methods.