Nineteen years is an awfully long time to wait to challenge even a series of pay decisions — and Alito and the majority apparently do not believe that employers should
face unlimited liability for past salary decisions that may reach back many years, or even decades.
For his part, Sam's father, overwhelmed by the responsibilities of being a single parent and his apparently
unlimited liability in the
face of Sam's seemingly interminable dependence on him, lived his life as though his identity were simply that of the man whose son has an appalling medical history, whose wife has committed suicide, who alone is responsible for caring for his almost unmanageable son for the rest of his life.