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Supreme Court- Longtime Enemy of Civil Rights
TPMCafe —
... The NY Times has an article about the proposed Ledbetter bill to reverse the decision by the Supreme Court which severely restricted the ability of civil rights plaintiffs to file discrimination lawsuits. Here's a reality that goes against conventional wisdom-- the problem of Congress having to reverse decisions by the Court hostile to civil rights is nothing new. From the article: ...
The Ledbetter Effect
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
There was a good piece in the Times yesterday about the ripple effects of the Ledbetter decision throughout the lower courts. With Sam Alito as their guide, judges have apparently concluded that the statute of limitations in any particular discrimination case expired anywhere from five to ten years before the discrimination actually began. In at least one case, this was literally true: ...
Courts using Ledbetter decision to ‘undermine civil rights principles across the board.’
Think Progress —
... it. On a conference call organized by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today, Marcia Greenberger, co-president of the National Women’s Law Center, explained that the faulty Supreme Court decision has been stretched to cripple all kinds of anti-discrimination laws: ...
