.Ledbetter's invention that she was making lower than her male versions for doing the same work at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Alabama triggered her case, which essentially failed when the Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that she had actually filed her problem far too late. The courthouse controlled that workers have to submit cases within six months of 1st receiving a prejudiced income-- in Ledbetter's situation, it was years prior to she discovered the disparity through a confidential letter.Two years eventually, previous President Barack Obama signed in to rule the Lilly Ledbetter Exhibition Pay For Act, which provided workers the right to file a claim against within 180 days of getting each bias paycheck, certainly not simply the first one." Lilly Ledbetter never set out to be a pioneer or even a somebody. She just wished to be paid out the same as a man for her effort," Obama said in a statement Monday. "Lilly did what many Americans before her have carried out: setting her sights higher for herself and even higher for her children and also grandchildren.".