The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined to take up a case about gender-based pay disparities in education, refusing to review a lower-court ruling that invalidated a California county education agency’s policy of considering new employees’ pay history in setting their salaries. The court issued a brief order without comment or recorded dissent declining review in Yovino v. Rizo (Case No. 19-1176). Separately, the justices ordered a lower court to reexamine a case about state bus transportation for private school students in light of this week’s decision that a state may not exclude religious schools when it subsidizes private education. The equal-pay case has been on the justices’ radar for a couple of years. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, in San Francisco, first ruled in 2018 to revive a female mathematics consultant’s challenge under the Equal Pay Act of 1963 to the policy of the Fresno County superintendent of education taking pay history into account. But the controlling opinion in that decision was written by a 9th Circuit judge, Stephen R. Reinhardt, who had died days before the opinion’s release. The Supreme Court last year ordered that decision thrown out , holding that Reinhardt’s vote […]
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