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White House Threatens To Veto Employment Discrimination Legislation, from acsblog.org

Posted April 23, 2008 | Yesterday, the White House threatened to veto legislation that "would make it easier for victims of discrimination to sue their employers over unequal pay," the Washington Post reported. The legislation, known as the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2007, seeks to overturn a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber. In that case, the Court narrowly interpreted employment discrimination law to prohibit a lawsuit for gender-based pay discrimination unless the discrimination occurred within 180 days of the plaintiff's filing suit, regardless of when she found out about the discrimination...

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Senate Republicans Pick Fight Over Judges (Yes, Again), from afjjusticewatch.blogspot.com

Posted April 24, 2008 | It appears that last week’s attempts by Senate leaders to resolve the issue of federal judges peacefully were short lived. The McConnell-Reid agreement, which called for movement on three circuit court nominees before Memorial Day now seems to be falling apart. Why? No one can agree on which judges to move...

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