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With the recent death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Rubber & Plastics News is reposting this feature from August 2012. It's a conversation with Lilly Ledbetter, a former Goodyear employee whose landmark equity pay case against the tire maker reached the country's highest court, and for which Ginsburg wrote a famous dissent.

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