Ruth+Bader+Ginsburg

Name: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Date of Birth: March 15, 1933 Current Age: 75 Date of Appointment: August 9th, 1993, by: Bill Clinton.

Early Life: Born in New York. She is Jewish. Her father was a German immigrant, and her mother taught her values along with the needs for independence. She was middle class. She lived in an urban area, filled with mostly immigrants from Italy and Ireland. Her husband was in the army. Her sister died as a child from Meningitis, and her mother died of cancer in her senior year of High School. So far her high school experience had been perfect, and she was the beauty queen at her school. Education: After high school she went to Cornell University for under grad. Thats where she met her husband, Martin Ginsburg. Then she went to Harvard Law. Harvard wasn't open to female students at the time and were hostile to her. She switched to Columbia Law school, and became the first woman to have honored positions at two major schools. Before the US Supreme Court: She worked as an associate at Columbia Law. After wards she joined Rutgers University Law School in the year 1963, She taught a sex ed class. Since it was 1963 that was a very radical view and at the time racial discrimination was thought worse then feminist discrimination. She worked for women's rights and helped out with the American Civil Liberties Union. She was the first women appointed to Columbia Law. In the same year she became the first director of the ACLU's Women's Rights Project. She worked around the board for various law firms, and because of that she became a US Court of Appeals judge. She was nominated by Jimmy Carter and stayed in until she was nominated to be a Supreme Court Justice. Experiences That Shaped Our Justice: She was influenced by   <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; color: rgb(66, 178, 240);">her sister as a child. She died from Meningitis. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; color: rgb(66, 178, 240);"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; color: rgb(66, 178, 240);">Her husband was in the military. When she applied for a job at a Social Security office they demoted her when she told them that she was pregnant, this later affected her views. <span style="color: rgb(15, 104, 235);"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; color: rgb(66, 178, 240);">Then the second time she was pregnant she tried to hide it. Her mother died of cancer. It was her mothers dying wish that she goes to college. Her husband got cancer but he survived. Voting Record and On the Issues: <span style="color: rgb(68, 255, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3/4 Majority. Is against: Police and dog road blocks checking for drugs, Rights to own guns, Capital Punishment. Is for: Suing companies for pulloting, goverment funded abortion, private groups letting in gays, minorities, and women. Decisions: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(249, 150, 36);">1. Schmidt, a guy who lived in South Carolina decided to sue Wachovia Bank for wrongly including him in an illegal tax shelter. Wachovia's main office was in North Carolina, and the bank he was suing was a branch, (like a sister bank) of Wachovia. Under Federal law it was said that citizens of different states are allowed to sue, Wachovia petitioned the law, saying that it only works where the company is respectively located at. It was decided that the bank was only located within the state it respectively claimed. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(249, 150, 36);">2. Reeder Simco GMC inc. sued volvo trucks north America,for violating the pricing discrimnatory act. When the different dealerships price the cars they ask Volvo North America how much the Pry have to sell them for, and the Reeds Volvo Dealership says that they told other dealer ships better prices. They said it was because of the fact Volvo discriminated against people on that area. The case was decided that it was not discrimatory, because the consumer target was different. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(249, 150, 36);">3. Two people Christophe and Juanito Riche lived in an apartment rented by Lincoln Property Company, they ended up suing the company because they said they were exposed to toxic mold. The only issue is that the company was based in Texas and the people were from Virginia. Lincoln took the case to Federal court, even though the people wanted to take it to state court. It was unamiously decided that they could take it to Federal court any way. 4. Chavis was convicted of murder but there was no body. He made a petition for habeas corpus to get rid of the charge but it got denied, but he kept trying, but it would take another three years and he had only a one year limitation. He was on death row and saying that he shouldn't be killed because his appeal was pending, but his appeal was lately filed. They decided that it shouldn't stop him from being killed. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(249, 150, 36);">5. Jennifer, a waitress at the Moonlight Cafe in Louisiana, sued her employer for sexual harassment, but the employer said that it didn't count as an employer, because there weren't enough employees. The court ruled that the fact that they didn't have enough employees doesn't affect it judicially. The case got thrown out of the supreme court and the company got sued. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(249, 150, 36);">6. Ohio prisoners sued the jail under RLUIPA, saying that it was a violation of their rights. Their case was that the jail only offered mainstream religions, and didn't allow prisoners of other religions to practice their religions. The court ruled that it wasn't favored toward any religion, so nothing happened. Her Judicial Views: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(224, 16, 159); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">When she was elected into office the votes were 97-3. She is mostly liberal, but has voted across the aisle sometimes. She still promotes women's rights and civil liberty. <span style="color: rgb(224, 16, 159); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(224, 16, 159); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">She was the first Jewish justice since 1969. She is Pro-Choice, and believes it's a womens right. She also believes in gay rights and believes that discrimination against gay people is against their civil rights. Discrimination agaianst minorities is a big issue for her too, and voted to make more companies hire gays, minorities, and women. <span style="color: rgb(224, 16, 159); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">  <span style="color: rgb(224, 16, 159); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 92, 178);">
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