Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh
Law Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, she filed an amicus brief in the Ledbetter case before the Supreme Court
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Deborah Brake
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FROM Deborah Brake
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Congress Prepares to Send Fair Pay Bill to Obama The House today was expected to join the Senate and pass the first bill to go to the desk of President Obama. It would make it easier for women workers to combat wage discrimination. In 2007, the US Supreme Court ruled against Lilly Ledbetter , even though she proved she was paid less than her male colleagues for doing the same work at a Goodyear Tire plant in Gadsden, Alabama. Ledbetter rode Barack Obama’s inaugural train from Philadelphia to Washington and he promised her the law would be changed. Debora Brake, who teaches law at the University of Pittsburgh, filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case.
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