In January 2009, President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Act, the first new law of his presidency. The bill was named after a woman who had allegedly suffered discrimination by a former employer and who then waited for years before suing for back pay. She lost a landmark Supreme Court case in 2007, because the statutory time limit had long since expired when she filed her suit. In response, Democrats passed and Obama signed this bill, which effectively abolished all time limits for such lawsuits. At the time this bill passed, The Washington Examiner warned that such loosening of legal standards would create a lucrative new frontier for trial lawyers to fish for decades-old complaints among disgruntled employees. The imagination of the plaintiffs’ bar, as we see in the case being heard in the Supreme Court today, is far more robust than ours. Instead of fishing for individual grievances, trial lawyers have attempted to create a multibillion-dollar class-action case on behalf of 1.5 million female Walmart employees, past and present, who worked for the company anytime after 1998.