Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Atlanta Gas Light Company

VANCE, Circuit Judge:

Atlanta Gas Light Company appeals the district court’s holding that the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. v. EEOC, 462 U.S. 669, 103 S.Ct. 2622, 77 L.Ed.2d 89 (1983), should be given retroactive effect. We affirm.

From 1976 to 1983, Atlanta Gas Light Company provided a group hospitalization plan to its employees which afforded female employees full insurance coverage for pregnancy-related conditions, but which required male employees to pay an extra premium for the pregnancy-related expenses of their wives. The EEOC brought suits…