When a Supreme Court ruling last month made it more difficult for victims of unequal pay to sue their employers, advocates for the American business community celebrated. But those joyous feelings could be gone -- and sooner rather than later. Almost immediately after the May 29 decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. , Democratic staffers were quietly, yet urgently, crafting legislation to reverse the 5-4 ruling during what was supposed to be recess week on the Hill.
June 11, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
When a Supreme Court ruling last month made it more difficult for victims of unequal pay to sue their employers, advocates for the American business community celebrated.
“We are thrilled,” Karen Harned, executive director of the National Federation of Independent Business Legal Foundation, said at the time.
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