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Byline: Yvette Cabrera
Mar. 25--On the day the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision, Dorothy J. Mulkey's phone at work rang with the news.
She tried hard to contain herself, calmly went to her boss, and told him "something gigantic" had just happened.
"I have to go home," Dottie, as she's known, told him.
He understood.
After a four-year battle for justice, after quietly going about her life and keeping this struggle from colleagues, Dottie was getting her due.
So she headed home to her apartment in Santa Ana, where a throng of journalists were already crowded outside, and celebrated her victory.