President Barack Obama signed legislation late last month reversing a Supreme Court decision that severely limited workers' ability to sue their employers on the basis of wage discrimination.

The signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act came just two days after final congressional action.

The president was accompanied when he entered the White House East Room by Lilly Ledbetter, the Alabama woman who was the named plaintiff in a 2007 Supreme Court decision being reversed by the new law.

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