Editorial - The Supreme Court Opens a Door for Workers - NYTimes.com

Editorial - The Supreme Court Opens a Door for Workers - NYTimes.com: "Ms. Ledbetter’s deadline, he wrote, started with the first act of discrimination against her because she was trying to prove that Goodyear’s pay system caused a “disparate treatment” of men and women, a stricter standard that can result in more damages but requires proof of intentional discrimination. The aspiring firefighters, on the other hand, were trying to show that the test had only a “disparate impact,” which does not require intentional discrimination, and, Mr. Scalia wrote, lacks the strict deadline requirements."