all of the programs, whether it is phil ginsberg to making sure our parks are open and affordable for our use, -- youth, or it is muni where there were free passes for low-income youth, and working with bill, making sure we have a fair justice system that reunites youth

all of the programs, whether it is phil ginsberg to making sure our parks are open and affordable for our use, -- youth, or it is muni where there were free passes for low-income youth, and working with bill, making sure we have a fair justice system that reunites youth with family. i had a chance to meet with members of coleman advocates. they told me a serious story about low income youth in the city. there is about 900 kids, primarily african-american and hispanic, low-income, the dots

the next question will be for bill ginsberg. the ggrna proposal will concentrate dogs in smaller areas which will lead to inevitable problems. how will the city deal with this? i have been working with bill on this issue. >> i was expecting to be challenged by a love questions tonight, but the dog question might be the most challenging of all. i think we are all falling -- following the public discussion facing the golden gate national recreational area draft eir that will restrict off-leash dog use in the area. dog use issues are tricky. park stewards need to balance a variety of recreational uses and a responsibility to protect and preserve the environment. there is a question, however, from my perspective it is almost a matter of common sense, that if off-leash dog use is restricted in our parks, it will put pressure on the neighborhood parks. through the leadership of supervisor wiener, we have expressed our point of view to the golden gate national recreation area, and they have agreed to talk to us and listen to us and und

that is what justice ginsberg thinks is going on. i will say by way of conclusion that social science does back justice ginsburg. there is a lot of evidence that we all have these pre-cognitive biases. before we think about what we are going to do, we have these ways of classifying people. they do not disappear in the workplace. if you think about what the court can do, you might ask this question. harcourt's well-suited to dealing with structural inequalities rather than bad actors? our courts well suited to dealing with questions of implicit motivation, pre-card to decisions that affect everyone? or is it possible that in the path to equality the courts can only lead us so far and the lawsuit may not be the right way to correct workplace inequality going forward? >> thank you. there are more cases we could have talked about, but i hope you will agree it is better to do a thorough job of the work cases rather than superficial coverage of a lot of cases. there is more to read. the opinions are there. i am sure if time permits after w

still ginzberg, i have -- phil ginsberg, a question for you. this is an anonymous question. >> which is that are really passionate speech about revenue and tradeoffs. i would rather charge to see an area brother then shutter its. the botanical garden is one small strategy among many a times to replace the money we need to cut would revenue, so we can provide services to our community. we did note joy out of charging -- get no joy out of charging fees. but our primary mission is to keep our parks clean and safe. the botanical garden is a treasure. 25 acres of bliss. 55 acres. tin gardners. do you know how many gardeners i can afford? 3. difficult choices. we get no joy in charging fees. we will fight, fight, fight to raise revenues so we can continue to provide services to our community. supervisor cohen: ok. we have five minutes. i am going to give mayor lee an opportunity -- >> [unintelligible] we need to hear from you, supervisors, the mayor, and everybody here. we need to hear from you all. i ask respectfully you make a comment about that. s

. >> my name is phil ginsberg. i am the general manager of recreation and parks. -- my name is phil ginsburg. [inaudible] thank you. >> [inaudible] i am mayor lee's budget director. it is my job to work with the mayor and board of supervisors to make sure we are going to balance our budget every year, as we are required to do under the charter. i appreciate all of you being here and look forward to hearing your thoughts on the budget. [applause] >> [speaking spanish] i am director of health. [applause] them a good evening. -- >> good evening. i'm from the department of children, youth, and their families. [applause] >> i am from the department of public works. dpw is responsible for designing, building, and repairing public facilities, but we are also responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the public rights of way like sidewalks in san francisco, maintaining landscape, and keeping our public realm clean and safe. [applause] >> [speaking spanish] i am the director of the central [inaudible] i do not wo

supervisor wiener: phil ginsberg has something about the city fell commitment to low-income youth. >> we have a very robust scholarship fund through aggressive philanthropy and fund-raising. no child is denied an opportunity to participate in our programs based on ability to pay. this summer, we will be tripling the number of learned to swim class's we have in our polls. drowning is the second leading cause of deaf for our low in, youth. -- low income youth. it is our primary mission to make sure the children who do not have as much opportunity as others have a safe and fun place to play. [applause] supervisor wiener: ok, the last written question we will do for now is submitted by a lydia. home care providers have already been reduced to 3.6% of service hours. the county has projected a reduction of the funds that provide health insurance for these providers. we are asking the board of supervisors to restore funds, since we already save the county $10 million compared to the $184,000 the county is trying to say. the home health-care providers to go into people's time -- homes, people

we have fiphil ginsberg, from parks and recreation. >> i encourage all families to please participate in our recreation programs, facilities, and summer camps. we have a tremendous amount of programs. even in tough budget times, we have been working with agencies to figure out how to continue to provide programming for our kids. even though summer school programs have been cut short, we have expanded our summer camps. they are available to anybody regardless of ability to pay. i am the father of two young daughters. we're very focused on girls' sports and recreational activities. come play with us. it is safe and fun. thank you. supervisor campos: next speakers. please come on up. i would ask the speakers to slow down oncso that proper translatn can take place. >> [speaking spanish] >> good evening. i am a mother of the latino community in district 9. >> [speaking spanish] >> i am very grateful for the programs offered in district 9 by nonprofits. >> [speaking spanish] >> they provide education and opportunities for the parents and children. >> [speaking spanish] >> if they cut these

and justice ruth bader ginsberg shot back at scalia, saying that discrimination in the workplace is more subtle than he described. "managers, like all humankind, may be prey to biases of which they are unaware." walmart declared total victory. so, what does this ruling mean? >> the supreme court raised the bar extraordinarily high now for women and others who face discrimination in the workplace to be able to come together. >> reporter: is this a setback for women in the workplace? in congress, house democratic leader nancy pelosi says the ruling sets back the cause of equality. and listen to what we heard out on the streets today. if you had to go up against your employer in a case, would you feel that the system was on your side? >> that's a difficult one. i would have to say probably not. they have more resources for attorneys than most working people do. >> reporter: finally, what can women who face discrimination do now? well, every woman and man still has the basic right to sue employers but now most will have to do so as individuals. they will have to fight the company alone. and

the social science does back justice ginsberg. there is a lot of evidence that we all have these biases where before we even think of what we are going to do we have these ways of classifying people and they don't help women in the workplace. but if you think about this as a question of what courts can do, you might ask yourself this question. are courts well suited to dealing with structural inequality rather than bad actors. are they suited to deal with questions of implicit moat station that affects everyone? or is it possible in the past the courts can only lead us so far and lawsuits may as the majority suggest not be the right way to correct workplace inequality going forward? >> thank you, heather. there are more cases we could have talked about but i hope you will agree that it is better to do a thorough job of fewer cases rather than a superficial coverage of a lot of cases. there is more to read and there are opinions there. i'm sure if time permits after we conclude today if you have a question they might linger long en

. >> reporter: pharmacist ian ginsberg says finding solutions to ailments at home is more popular thanpeople love being able to cook up stuff at home. >> reporter: while ian fills conventional prescriptions, most of his day he's a big believer in concocting your own cures. >> i think people sometimes are a little frustrated buying medicine. so sometimes we kind of go back. >> reporter: back to those homemade remedies made famous by moms and grandmas. >> there are some great remedies at home that are better than in the store. >> reporter: so we asked for a lesson on some of his favorite alternatives. first ailment, nixing that nausea. >> lime juice, baking soda and sugar. it's a 1/2-teaspoon of baking soda. it's a 1/-- 1/4 tea soon of baking soda, it's a -- teaspoon of baking soda, 1/2-teaspoon of sugar and 1/2-teaspoon of lime juice. >> reporter: next we have the dreaded cold. instead of spending loads of cash trying to deacon jest he says try dissolving some menthol -- decongesh, he says try dissolving some menthol crystals and if you suffer from acne, skip the expensive store medicat

ruth ginsberg and more liberal justices thought there is quite a bit of evidence of discrimination thats across this company. they cited the statistics. they would have allowed the plaintiffs to go back and try again to bring a class-action claim. host: to give you a flavor of the oral argument, we will play two clips. one is justice scalia. he ended up writing the majority opinion. >> at the sam walton institute where every manager has to be trained for the become a manager, they provide as a response to a standard question, why are women so under represented or few women in management? the response given was because men seated it's meant more aggressive. that is the stereotypical statement provided to every person going through the management training program that they then go off and informed their decisions when they make these discussions to make promotions. >> how could that cause -- caused them to intentionally discriminate on the basis of sex? >> they have an intent to take sex into account in making their decisions. that is they apply a stereotype about women being less aggress

ruth ginsberg and more liberal justices thought there is quite a bit of evidence of discrimination that goes across this company. they cited thetatistics. they would have allowed the plaintiffs to go back and try again to bring a class-action claim. host: to give you a flavor of the oral argument, we will play two clips. one is justice scalia. he ended up writing the majority opinion. >> at the sam walton instite where every manager has to be trained for the become a manager, they provide as a response to a standard question, why are women so under represented ofew women in management? the response given was because men seated it's meant more aggressive. that is the stereotypical statement provided to every person going through the management training progm that they then go off and informed their decisions when they make these discussions to make promotio. >> how could that cause -- caused them to intentionally discriminate on the basis of sex? >> they have an intent to take sex into account in making their decisions. that is they apply a stereotype about women being ls aggressive when

he served at one time as a law clerk to judge wilkinson before he went on to a clerk for justice ginsberg at the supreme court. finally, we have the john h. watkins professor at harvard who is a former law clerk having clerked for the d.c. circuit and for justice scalia at the supreme court. all of us want to change the fourth circuit for its hospitality. you could not have been more hospitable or more gracious. we are grateful to you. let me take a few minutes as we begin our discussion to try to set the context of the roberts court. is completing its sixth year this week. i was thinking about the time that passed from the year that earl warren, 1953, became chief justice and the time nine years later when the warren court really came of age when felix frankfurter left the court. i was -- it was in the mid-'60s that the warren court handed down many of its landmark decisions. it is interesting to note that about the same period of time passed between when william rehnquist became chief justice and the time in which the rehnquist court came of age, roughly around 1995. the benchmark that

because he served at one time as a law clerk to judge wilkinson before he went on to clerk for justice ginsberg at the supreme court. finally, we have adrian vermeel from harvard, who clerked for the d.c. circuit and for justice scalia on the u.s. supreme court. all of us on the panel want to thank the fourth circuit for its hospitality. the chief judge, judges, and staff could not have been more hospitable are gracious. we are grateful to you. let me take a few minutes as we begin our discussion this morning to try to set the context of the roberts court. it has now completed -- it is completing this weekend its sixth year. it is interesting. i was thinking about the time that passed from the year that earl warren in 1953 became chief justice and the time nine years later when the warren court relief finally came of age, i think when felix frankfurter left the court and arthur goldberg took his place. it was in the early to mid '60's that the warren court handed down many of its landmark decisions -- one-person, one- vote. gideon. miranda. cases like that. the same time passed between the year

the district court, or justice ginsberg, suggested that he found it would be impossible, not just because -- because of the number of claims. these were being implemented in a way that affected people differently. the problem here, mr. sellars says, is we're going to have a proceeding where the district judge relies only on the records that he says are in adequate to allow it. that is not a process known to our jurisprudence. it does not comport with due process. it takes away the rights of wal- mart. it takes away the rights of individual women. >> you do not seriously contend that if the plaintiff, if the policy were found the practice of discrimination that a woman could not come in and say, "they put x in. i have a longer history at wal- mart. i had no criticisms of my work, and i was not promoted." would that not be enough for her to show that that policy influenced her lack of selection? and your personal data base has all of that information, so why is it impossible? other than because of their large numbers? it is such a different issue. >> we agree that a woman should be able to

justice ginsberg says the discrimination we are talking about is subconscious. this i pre-thought. it is the way we think about women in the workplace. it is the fact that we are less likely to see women being successful managers. that in fact any discretionary decision. justice ginsburg find it easy to imagine this constituted discrimination that would affect all women. she cites a study of orchestras. when orchestras began to use blind triads, where you could not see the gender of the person behind it, the number of women in orchestras increase dramatically. why was that? it is not as though the people before that thought they did not like women. the study suggests that what happened was that people used to think men were better musicians. so when they heard a man play thought his music was better than when they heard a woman play. when you blinded them to the gender of the person behind the screen, you increase the number of women. that is what jusce ginsber thinks is going on. i will say by way of conclusion that social science doesack justice ginsburg. there is a lot of eviden