.Ledbetter's discovery that she was earning less than her male equivalents for performing the exact same work at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Alabama caused her case, which essentially stopped working when the Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that she had submitted her complaint late. The courtroom reigned that workers have to file lawsuits within six months of very first obtaining an inequitable salary-- in Ledbetter's situation, it was actually years before she learned about the difference via an undisclosed letter.Two years later, former Head of state Barack Obama signed right into rule the Lilly Ledbetter Exhibition Pay For Action, which offered laborers the right to file a claim against within 180 days of obtaining each bias payday, certainly not only the 1st one." Lilly Ledbetter never laid out to become an innovator or even a somebody. She only desired to be actually paid the same as a man for her hard work," Obama stated in a statement Monday. "Lilly did what many Americans prior to her have actually carried out: specifying her sights high for herself and even higher for her little ones and also grandchildren.".