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In a 5-4 decision, an increasingly divided Supreme Court ruled that the "current effects" of career-long discrimination were insufficient justification for workers to sue their employers. In her dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took the majority to task for what she characterized as a misinterpretation of the intent of the law, and the negative effect that this ruling could have on women striving for an equal footing in the workplace.