In January 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Act, the first new law of his presidency. The bill was named after a woman who had allegedly suffered discrimination by a former employer and who then waited for years before suing for back-pay. She lost a landmark Supreme Court case in 2007, because the statutory time-limit had long since expired when she filed her suit.
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In his speech in Tucson, where federal Judge John Roll was recently murdered, President Obama said that "only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to our challenges as a nation." But the President himself has often failed to live up to this aspiration, as his dishonest attacks on the judiciary, and his long line of broken campaign promises, illustrate.
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By:
Theodore H. Frank
12/16/10 9:16 AM
Dukes v. Wal-Mart, a case claiming job discrimination against at least 1.5 million women, reached the U.S. Supreme Court last week after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco agreed, in a 6-5 vote, to permit the case to go forward as a single class action.
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