From Charles Jerome Ware, P.A., Attorneys and Counsellors.
www.CharlesJeromeWare.com (We fight. You Win.)
Lilly Ledbetter, the former Gadsden, Alabama Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant supervisor employee who inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, signed into law by President Barack Obama, apparently has a movie in the works.
The proposed movie has not been cast yet, but it is being produced and directed by "Picket Fences" and "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" Television episodes-director Rachel Feldman.
Ledbetter held the supervisor position with Goodyear from 1979 to 1998, and during that time she earned significantly less than her male colleagues. She later sued, and won a $3.8 million verdict. It was ultimately overturned—which the U.S Supreme Court upheld in 2007—because she missed the filing deadline. In a dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg urged Congress to change the law, and they did, amending the Civil Rights Act so the statute of limitations for pay discrimination suits resets with each new paycheck affected by a discriminatory act.
[www.abajournal.com/news/article/02-11-2013/ "Lilly Ledbetter's Story To Be Made Into A Movie"]
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