Legal Opinion
Kimberly Hern Troupe v. The May Department Stores Company, Doing Business as Lord & Taylor
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 31, 1994No. 93-2523PublishedCited by 571 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
In 1978, Congress amended Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on account of pregnancy: “women affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions shall be treated the same for all employment-related purposes, including receipt of benefits under fringe benefit programs, as other persons not so affected but similar in their ability or inability to work.” 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(k). The Supreme Court had held in the Gilbert case that discrimination on account of sex did not include discrimination on account of pregnancy, so employers…
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