You mean like conservatives wanted the courts to do in the Schiavo case?

You’re right!

It has nothing to do with right or wrong. The duty of a Supreme Court justice is to issue a ruling based upon their interpretation of a law or the constitution as it applies to legislation they are examining.

If the law is poorly written, or if a law violates constitutional principles, then they are duty bound to rule and provide the basis for their ruling. It would be a dereliction of a Justice’s duty to say, “Well I ruled this way because it was the right thing to do.”

My question was, If you discover on Mar 1, that you were screwed on the previous Aug 1, when does the “180 – day clock” run?

Granted, you can’t let the claim sit around forever, or collect money due from twenty years ago, but 180 days isn’t much time to discover and confirm that someone’s getting more than you in some unfair way.

Yes it was clear. 180 days after the pay is set. So if you don’t find out for six months, you’re screwed.

Besides, date of discovery is alot harder to prove than date of incident. Date of incident at least can be verified by bookkeeping

Are you so desperate to make a comment that you had to complain about being corrected twice.

This might have gone down the same with O’Connor, a corporatist, still on the bench, but Oliver’s right: It’s time for these kind of decisions to start going to the little guys instead of the Corporations again.

The plaitiff has other laws she can sue under. The civil rights act offered punitive damages.

Next question, if congress does fix the law, what are the odds that Bush might veto it?

Bill does make a good point when he says that the way law appears to be written, you’d have to start keeping tabs on everybody’s salary the day you’re hired in order to make any case.

Yes it was clear. 180 days after the pay is set. So if you don’t find out for six months, you’re screwed.

Actually what SCOTUS thinks is that Congress wrote a shitty law and needs to change it.

Democrats have the majority. It shouldn’t be too difficult.

Sounds like 180 after you sign on the dotted line to me. Apparently the SCOTUS thinks everyone should be sure to run around doing impromptu salary surveys the second they get a gig.