Supreme Court Ruling Affects Protesters in Abortion Debate

  The first case to be ruled on in the new Supreme Court session this October was Lefemine v. Wideman.  The case involves a Christian activist group that is involved in anti-abortion protests.  Lefemine, as a member of this group, displayed graphic posters featuring images of aborted fetuses while protesting abortions ...

New Report Says Women Forced to Give Birth, Forced to Abort

  Abortion took center stage as an issue women and men were interested in during this year's election cycle.  A new report from the Guttmacher Institute, compiled based on data and policies from governments around the world, reports that the law is being used in several different ways to prevent women from making informed ...

Mentally Impaired Woman Will Not Have Abortion, Court Decides

  A 32 year old Nevada woman whose developmental disabilities leave her with the mental capacity of a six year old will not have her pregnancy terminated.  This news comes according to court documents detailing an agreement reached by both parties in a court case that had attracted national attention from people on both sides ...

Texas Lactation Case Sets Stage for Breastfeeding Battle

  Do women have the right to bring a breast pump to work in order to feed an infant at home?  That's the question being posed to a court of appeals in Texas this month after a woman was fired from her job because she told her boss that she planned to pump breast milk at work after returning from pregnancy leave. The ...

Woman Sues Target After Being Fired While Pregnant

  Claiming that the company violated her rights according to the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, a former employee is suing Target Corporation.  Last week, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced that they would not grant summary judgment to Target.  This ruling ...

Discrimination, Harassment Claims Against Señor Frog's Execs

  Señor Frog's, a chain of Mexican restaurants associated with party-heavy tourist areas, is being sued by a group of nine claimants who say that they were subjected to flagrant and repeated harassment and discrimination.  According to the claimants, harassment and discriminatory practices occurred at the highest ...

Pregnancy Discrimination Case Settled, EEOC Hits Hard

  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced earlier this November that it has reached a settlement agreement with the Muskegon River Youth Home.  The youth home, which served as a detention facility for juveniles in the state of Michigan, had an employment policy that required employees to take particular steps ...

Sexual Harassment Settlement Reached by IHOP Franchise

  The franchise owner of several IHOP restaurants located throughout New Mexico has agreed to settle a sexual discrimination lawsuit for the sum of $1 million.  The lawsuit alleged that a class of 22 women had been sexually harassed by a manager at one of the IHOP restaurants owned by the franchisee. The group of women ...

Vote for Women Bishops Fails in England

  A widely anticipated vote on the status of women in England's largest church left the status quo intact.  Although a solid majority voted in favor of the measure allowing female bishops to serve the Church of England, the measure failed due to voting rules requiring a two-thirds majority from three different voting groups ...

Proposed Ontario Leave Cut Leaves Lady Lawyers in Lurch

  A cut to a parental leave program that hundreds of attorneys—most of them women—have depended on for three years may leave some pregnant attorneys without options for continuing their legal practice.  The changes, proposed as a cost savings measure by the Ontario Law Society, will be debated later this week. The ...

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