The plaintiff in this case was an Air Force lieutenant who tried to claim her college student husband as a dependent. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 1973 Supreme Court case where William Brennan’s plurality opinion concurred with the plaintiff’s lawyer that strict scrutiny should be applied in gender discrimination cases.
ANSWER: Frontiero v. Richardson [prompt on partial answers]
[10e] This lawyer argued on behalf of Frontiero. As a Supreme Court Justice, she wrote majority opinions in US v. Virginia and Olmstead v. L.C. after her 1993 confirmation.
ANSWER: Ruth Bader Ginsburg [or Joan Ruth Bader; prompt on RBG]
[10m] Ginsburg dissented in a case brought by this woman, who sued Goodyear over gender pay discrimination. Obama signed a bill named for her that amended the 1964 Civil Rights Act to make it easier to file equal-pay lawsuits.
ANSWER: Lilly Ledbetter [accept Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. or Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009]
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