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Q: The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has cast a cloud over the outcome of class-action lawsuits that target businesses, leading Dow Chemical Co. to pay $835 million to settle a case rather than risk an appeal without the conservative justice. 
  
 Dow Chemical’s decision is a signal of worry among businesses with cases before the high court, which could operate without its former 5-4 conservative majority well into next year. Justice Scalia was an ally to companies in their decadeslong push to block multiparty lawsuits... ||||| FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2006 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gives the keynote speech on the debate over the role that international and foreign law should play in American judicial decision-making,... (Associated Press) 
  
 FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2006 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gives the keynote speech on the debate over the role that international and foreign law should play in American judicial decision-making, during a day-long symposium at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. Dow... (Associated Press) 
  
 FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2006 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gives the keynote speech on the debate over the role that international and foreign law should play in American judicial decision-making, during a day-long symposium at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. Dow... (Associated Press) FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2006 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gives the keynote speech on the debate over the role that international and foreign law should play in American judicial decision-making,... (Associated Press) 
  
 MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) — Dow Chemical said Friday it will pay $835 million to settle a long-standing class action lawsuit, after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia decreased its chances of prevailing at the Supreme Court. 
  
 The announcement is an early indication of how corporations are shifting their legal strategy following the loss of the court's 5-4 conservative majority. 
  
 "I think most corporations facing class actions regarded Justice Scalia as a friend," said Robert Peck, president of the Center for Constitutional Litigation in Washington. "He has been a thoroughly consistent vote on their side of the equation." 
  
 Dow was found liable in 2013 by a Kansas jury of allegedly conspiring to fix prices for polyurethane, an industrial chemical used in everything from packaging to car interiors. The judgment dealt with alleged actions by Dow and several other companies between 2000 and 2003. Dow had petitioned the Supreme Court to reconsider the judgment. 
  
 But the company said Friday the court's current lineup has "increased the likelihood for unfavorable outcomes for business involved in class action suits." 
  
 Following Scalia's death earlier this month, the Supreme Court is now evenly split 4-4 between justices who are usually conservative and those who are liberal. Split decisions revert to the lower court's opinion, such as the federal court in Kansas which ruled against Dow. 
  
 Among many other business-friendly decisions, Scalia authored the majority opinion in a 2011 decision in favor of Wal-Mart, throwing out a sex discrimination lawsuit brought by some 1.5 million female employees. 
  
 President Barack Obama has said he will nominate a replacement to the bench, but Senate Republicans have vowed to neither hold hearings nor vote on his pick. 
  
 Dow, a conglomerate of industrial and agricultural chemical businesses, said the settlement would benefit shareholders. 
  
 "While Dow is settling this case, it continues to strongly believe that it was not part of any conspiracy and the judgment was fundamentally flawed as a matter of class action law," the company said in a statement. |||||
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One consequence of Antonin Scalia's death: Dow Chemical will be setting a class-action lawsuit for $835 million. The company made the announcement Friday, explaining that it now has less of a chance of winning its appeal at the Supreme Court, the Wall Street Journal reports. In 2013, Dow was found liable of allegedly conspiring to fix prices for an industrial chemical between 2000 and 2003, the AP reports; the company was asking the Supreme Court to overturn that decision. But now, with the high court evenly split between typically conservative and typically liberal justices, any split decision would revert back to the original opinion by the lower court, in this case the Kansas federal court that ruled against Dow. Dow's move could end up being a sign of things to come, as businesses grapple with the fact that the Supreme Court no longer has a conservative majority. "I think most corporations facing class actions regarded Justice Scalia as a friend," the president of the Center for Constitutional Litigation in Washington tells the AP. "He has been a thoroughly consistent vote on their side of the equation." Even so, the Journal notes that even with Scalia on the bench, Dow may have lost its appeal, and the company came close to settling last year. "With this changing landscape, the unknowns, we just decided to put this behind us," a Dow spokesperson says. But, the company's statement notes, Dow "continues to strongly believe that it was not part of any conspiracy and the judgment was fundamentally flawed as a matter of class action law."