.Ledbetter's discovery that she was actually getting less than her male equivalents for performing the same work at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Alabama resulted in her lawsuit, which eventually stopped working when the Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that she had actually submitted her grievance too late. The courthouse ruled that employees should submit cases within 6 months of first acquiring a biased payday-- in Ledbetter's scenario, it was actually years before she found out about the difference with an undisclosed letter.Two years eventually, past Head of state Barack Obama authorized in to law the Lilly Ledbetter Exhibition Pay Action, which offered workers the right to sue within 180 times of getting each bias paycheck, not simply the first one." Lilly Ledbetter never laid out to be a pioneer or a somebody. She merely would like to be paid out the same as a guy for her hard work," Obama claimed in a declaration Monday. "Lilly performed what a lot of Americans before her have actually done: setting her sights higher for herself as well as also greater for her youngsters and also grandchildren.".