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AT&T v. Hulteen: The Ghost of Bad Supreme Court Rulings Past

Agreed, Dahlia, that Justice Ginsburg is carefully applying the law as she sees it in her dissent in AT&T v. Hulteen. Her problem is a bad old ruling that haunts this case and that all but one of her male colleagues refused to banish. In General Electric Co. v. Gilbert in 1976, the Supreme Court ruled that discrimination based on pregnancy is not discrimination based on sex, because some women (the nonpregnant ones) won't be discriminated against. By ignoring how... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)