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Just ten months ago, a shrewd labor lawyer named Edward Lamb won a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving Michigan's Mt. Clemens Pottery Co.-and thereby opened the door to over $5 billion in portal-to-portal back-pay suits. Then the case was sent back to Detroit's federal court, where it had started, to determine how much was due the pottery workers. This time Lamb did not fare so well...
Senators strolled wearily out to the cloakrooms, strolled back in again at the double clang of the quorum bell, while Missouri's tireless Republican Forrest Donnell droned through his exhaustive "introduction" to the bill to outlaw portal-to-portal pay suits, kept the floor for the better part of three days. Grumbled one Senator: "We ought to meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and let Donnell meet on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday...
...look was depressing. The two houses had yet to agree on a budget ceiling, and their conferees had not even met. The Senate was logjammed. Portal pay, atomic-energy nominations, sugar rationing and aid for displaced persons were all ahead of the Greek-Turkish question, and yet the leadership wanted action on this within two weeks...
...collect portal-to-portal back...
With no help from wrangling lawyers, the judge had to use common sense. A normal walking pace, he ruled, was three miles an hour. At that speed, no worker took more than three minutes to walk from the portal to his bench...