On August 10, 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the 107th Supreme Court justice:
on behalf of two women, Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson, who were living with mental disabilities. Both were voluntarily admitted to the psychiatric unit of a state-run Georgia hospital, but were then held there in isolation in the years following their initial treatments — even after being medically cleared to move to a more community-based setting.
The court voted 6–3 in favor of the two women, ruling that Georgia had violated the “integration mandate.” Ginsburg wrote the, in which she reinforced an important right afforded to individuals with disabilities, including mental illnesses. “We confront the question whether the proscription of discrimination may require placement of persons with mental disabilities in community settings rather than institutions,” she wrote. “The answer, we hold, is a qualified yes.
. “Pay disparities often occur, as they did in Ledbetter’s case, in small increments; cause to suspect that discrimination is at work develops over time. Comparative pay information, moreover, is often hidden from the employee’s view.”
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