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Byline: The Register-Guard
After eight years of erosion of civil rights under the Bush administration, it is only fitting that the first legislation that President Barack Obama will sign into law is a bill that makes it easier for women, minorities and others to sue for pay discrimination.
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act that the House passed Tuesday and that Obama plans to sign today restores civil rights wrongly restricted by a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. That ruling made it more difficult for people to challenge illegal discrimination.
