Thursday, Oct. 11, 1pm in Hulston Hall Rm. 6:
The ACS-Missouri Supreme Court Series:
Ledbetter v. Goodyear and the Roberts Court
Panelists: Assistant Attorney General of the State of Missouri Heidi Vollet, and University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law Professors Christina Wells and Rigel Oliveri.
Here, a video of Ledbetter describing her case before the House Committee on Education and Labor.
WaPo:
The Democrats’ legislation would allow employees to sue within 180 days of their last affected paychecks. Senate Democrats are working on a similar bill.Ledbetter, who will not be helped by the legislation, said she hopes it helps other people. “I just want to open the doors for women in the future so they can be treated fairly,” she said in an interview.
The White House has threatened to veto the bill, and has enough votes in the House to make it stick.
As John Sweeney says in the article, this legislation wouldn’t even be necessary if the five justices in the majority hadn’t “bent over backwards, ignoring both precedent and common sense.”