Professor Hart Files Title VII Brief with US. Supreme Court

Professor Hart authored and filed a brief with the US Supreme Court today on behalf of the National Women's Law Center and 35 other civil rights organizations. The amicus brief supports the position of respondent Noreen Hulteen in AT&T v. Hulteen, a case the Court will hear this spring. The case presents the question whether a company violates Title VII's prohibition against sex discrimination when it calculates an employees benefits with a penalty on pregnancy leave taken before the passage of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978. First-year student Louis Brands Savage and second-year student Zachary Mountin volunteered their time, as part of the Public Service Pledge Program, to serve as research assistants for this pro bono project.