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Friday, November 9, 2018 5A
Justice Ginsburg in hospital
after fracturing 3 ribs in fall
JACQUELYN MARTIN I Associated Press
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, shown leaving
the stage after speaking to first-year students Sept. 26, at
Georgetown Law in Washington, was hospitalized after
fracturing three ribs in a fall at court.
BY MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Eighty-
five-year-old Supreme Court
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
fractured three ribs in a fall
in her office at the court and
is in the hospital, the court
said Thursday.
The court’s oldest justice
fell Wednesday evening,
the court said. She called
Supreme Court police to
take her to George Washing
ton University Hospital in
Washington early Thursday
after experiencing discom
fort overnight, court spokes
woman Kathy Arberg said.
She was admitted to
the hospital for treatment
and observation after tests
showed she fractured three
ribs.
In her absence, the court
went ahead Thursday with
a courtroom ceremony wel
coming new Justice Brett
Kavanaugh, who joined the
court last month. President
Donald Trump and new
acting Attorney General
Matthew Whitaker were on
hand.
Ginsburg has had a series
of health problems. She
broke two ribs in a fall in
2012. She has had two prior
bouts with cancer and had
a stent implanted to open a
blocked artery in 2014. She
also was hospitalized after
a bad reaction to medicine
in 2009.
But she has never missed
Supreme Court arguments.
The court won’t hear argu
ments again until Nov. 26.
Rib fractures are common
among older adults, particu
larly after falls. The severity
depends in part on whether
the ribs are cracked or bro
ken all the way through, and
how many are broken. The
extent of Ginsburg’s injury
was not clear.
A complete break
requires making sure the
two ends are in alignment,
so that a sharp piece of bone
doesn’t puncture nearby
blood vessels or organs.
Broken ribs typically heal
on their own in six weeks to
a month, and patients are
advised to limit strenuous
activity. But they can be very
painful and controlling pain
is key. A chief complication
is pneumonia, when patients
don’t breathe deeply enough
or cough enough because of
the rib pain.
Google bows on sexual misconduct policy
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Google is promis
ing to be more forceful and open about its
handling of sexual misconduct cases, a week
after thousands of high-paid engineers and
others walked out in protest over its male-
dominated culture.
Google bowed to a protesters’ main
demands by dropping mandatory arbitration
of all sexual misconduct cases. That will now
be optional, so workers can choose to sue in
court and present their case in front of a jury.
It mirrors a change made by ride-hailing ser
vice Uber after complaints from its female
employees prompted an internal investiga
tion. The probe concluded its rank had been
poisoned by rampant sexual harassment.
“Google’s leaders and I have heard your
feedback and have been moved by the sto
ries you’ve shared,” CEO Sundar Pichai
said in an email to Google employees. “We
recognize that we have not always gotten
everything right in the past and we are sin
cerely sorry for that. It’s clear we need to
make some changes.” Thursday’s email was
obtained by The Associated Press.
Last week, the tech giant’s workers left
their cubicles in dozens of offices around
the world to protest management’s lax treat
ment of top executives and other male work
ers accused of sexual harassment and other
misconduct. The protest’s organizers esti
mated about 20,000 workers participated.
The reforms are the latest fallout from a
societal backlash against men’s exploitation
of their female subordinates in business,
entertainment and politics — a movement
that spawned the “MeToo” hashtag as a sign
of unity and a call for change.
Google will provide more details about
sexual misconduct cases in internal reports
available to all employees. The breakdowns
will include the number of cases that were
substantiated within various company
departments and list the types of punish
ment imposed, including firings, pay cuts
and mandated counseling.
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