Bessie margolin. Bessie was born in a jewish orphanage in new orleans that shaped her life profoundly with social justice values. Id like to say that before there was a notorious rpg, as Justice Ginsburg is affectionately known, there was an audacious essie martin. We over essentially the fair labor standards act and equal pay. Shes championed those laws in her 30 years as the associate solicitor at the Labor Department and she was a mentor to me. What were some of the significant cases she was involved in as well as the fair labor act . All her time for the Labor Department was stamped on the fair labor standards act and so it was really the whole body of work that caused chief Justice Earl Warren to say that she had put the flesh and send you on the bare bones of the fair labor standards act and to count her work, the barebones would have been wholly inadequate. Her most perhaps significant case standing alone was the first piece under the equal pay act. She will be weakening laugh e