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...gripped by the 1936 abdication of Edward VIII after he decided to marry the American divorcé Wallis Simpson. However, the last known blackmail case involving a member of the royal family was successfully hushed up for many years. In 1891, the Duke of Clarence, son to King Edward VII, paid £ 200 to secure indiscreet letters he had sent to a prostitute. The case came to light only five years ago when a letter to his lawyer was sold at auction...
...than salaries. And about a third of private employers actually prohibit employees from sharing pay information. It is also a world that the U.S. Supreme Court seems unfamiliar with. The Justices recently decided 5 to 4 that workers are out of luck if they file a complaint under Title VII--the main federal antidiscrimination law--more than 180 days after their salary is set. That's six measly months to find out what your co-workers are making so that you can tell whether you're getting chiseled because of your sex, race, religion or national origin...
Lilly Ledbetter filed the case against Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. because at the end of a 19-year career, she was making far less than any of 15 men at her level. She argued that Goodyear violated Title VII every time it gave her a smaller paycheck. Her complaint was timely, she said, because she filed it within 180 days of her last check. But the court majority read the statute to mean that only an actual decision to pay Ledbetter less could be illegal, and that happened well outside the 180-day period...
...statute's ambiguous wording is fair game, but why read it to frustrate Title VII's purpose: to ease pay discrimination in a nation where women make only 77˘ on average for every $1 that men earn? And while employers might like this decision, they could end up choking on the torrent of lawsuits that might now come their way. "The real message is that if you have any inkling that you are being paid differently, you need to file now, before the 180 days are up," says Michael Foreman of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights...
...Mayer-Schoenberger asked. “No. But there are elections in two years. The beauty of the American republic is that its citizens viscerally understand when it is time to emphasize openness of government as well as limits of government.” Professor John G. Palfrey VII ’94, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, believes that this is an important issue. “There is very long term problem about the information that is being recorded about us by internet companies,” Palfrey said...