Constitutional Law

Supreme Court Plaintiff To Highlight Workplace Discrimination At Denver Convention

Lilly Ledbetter, the plaintiff in one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s high-profile employment law decisions from its 2006 - 07 term, will take her case to conventioneers in Denver this evening. The high court in a 5-4 ruling narrowly construed employment discrimination law in dismissing Ledbetter’s lawsuit against Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. The Court in Ledbetter v. Goodyear concluded that Ledbetter’s lawsuit was untimely. As noted by Tony Mauro for The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times, Ledbetter worked for Goodyear for more than a decade before discovering the disparity in pay with her male counterparts. Mauro added that Ledbetter’s appearance before the Democratic convention “will raise the Supreme Court as a campaign issue." (See DNC Convention schedule here.)

In featured remarks before the 2008 ACS National Convention in June, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) tagged the Ledbetter decision as among the Roberts Court’s most disturbing decisions. Video of Leahy’s remarks is available here.  Additional ACS analysis of the Ledbetter case is available in guest ACSBlog posts from Catherine Fisk, a Duke University professor of law, and Fatima Goss Graves, of the National Women’s Law Center. Also watch panel discussions on employment law cases, including Ledbetter, from the 2008 ACS National Convention here and here.

Also, check out a scheduled speech today from Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick, a former member of the ACS Board of Directors.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on August 26, 2008 (boomark / email).