{"id":240,"date":"2008-09-04T22:20:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T03:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2008-09-04T22:20:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T03:20:57","slug":"ledbetter-court-congress-and-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2008\/09\/ledbetter-court-congress-and-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Ledbetter: Court, Congress, and President"},"content":{"rendered":"

My colleague Paul Secunda recently wrote this pointed\u00a0essay<\/a> on the Supreme Court’s Ledbetter <\/em>decision for the Workplace Fairness Blog.\u00a0 Ledbetter <\/em>made it harder for plaintiffs\u00a0with Title VII pay discrimination claims to prevail by holding that the statute of limitations runs separately on\u00a0each of a series of\u00a0discriminatory pay decisions, even though the cumulative effects of\u00a0the decisions may continue to be felt for many years thereafter.\u00a0 Paul argues in his essay that\u00a0Ledbetter<\/em> is “absurd” inasmuch as it requires some victims of discrimination to file their claims\u00a0before they have a fair opportunity to discern the\u00a0discrimination.\u00a0 He urges Congress to pass a pending legislative fix, the Lilly Ledbetter Pay Equity Act, and notes that the issue is one that divides the current Republican and Democratic presidential nominees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My colleague Paul Secunda recently wrote this pointed\u00a0essay on the Supreme Court’s Ledbetter decision for the Workplace Fairness Blog.\u00a0 Ledbetter made it harder for plaintiffs\u00a0with Title VII pay discrimination claims to prevail by holding that the statute of limitations runs separately on\u00a0each of a series of\u00a0discriminatory pay decisions, even though the cumulative effects of\u00a0the decisions 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