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Judge dismisses USWNT in equal pay lawsuit

Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, summed up the massive pay gap between genders excellently when he said,  "The sorry ass f---ing men from the U.S. soccer team, they ain't ever won s---, ain't gonna ever win s---, can't get out the f---ing first round. Man, pay them ladies. The women should be getting $500k per athlete. Snoop Dogg says so." This was stated after the U.S. Women's National Team's victory over the Netherlands to win their fourth World Cup. Almost 10 months later, federal judge R. Gary Klausner, ruling in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Pasadena, rejected the USWNT’s argument that it has been underpaid relative to the U.S. men's team in a gender-discrimination suit filed in March 2019. In a ruling delivered on Friday, Klausner sided with the players’ employer, the U.S. Soccer Federation, which argued that the claim of unequal pay based on gender discrimination shoul