Lilly M. Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves a claim brought under Title YII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 1 by a former salaried employee of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (“Goodyear”). The employee, Lilly Ledbetter, claims that Goodyear paid her a smaller salary than it paid her male co-workers at Goodyear’s Gadsden, Alabama, tire plant because of her sex. Goodyear’s position, in addition to denying that sex played any role in the setting of her salary, is that Ledbetter may prevail only if she can prove that unlawful discrimination tainted an annual review of her salary made within 180 days…