 The bill would have overturned the Supreme Court decision in "Ledbetter v. Goodyear".There the Court dismissed a woman's discrimination claim because she had filed it more than 180 days after the "first" affected paycheck.McCain, who said he opposed the bill, was campaigning in New Orleans, Louisiana at the time of the Senate vote in 2008, when the bill died because Democrats could not break a Republican filibuster (The vote in favor of the bill was 56–42, with 60 needed for cloture).