United States Second Circuit

A self-insured health benefits plan's exclusion of surgical impregnation procedures did not fall within the purview of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and, because it is gender neutral, does not violate Title VII.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/10/2002
• Decided 01/15/2003
• Published 01/15/2003

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge., Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, F.I. PARKER and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Darnley D. Stewart,Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann, LLP, (Daniel L. Berger, Leah Guggenheimer, on the brief), New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Jonathan S. Franklin, Hogan & Hartson LLP, Washington, DC (Catherine E. Stetson, on the brief), for Amicus Curiae American Society for Reproductive Medicine, in Support of Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven C. BednarManning Curtis Bradshaw & Bednar LLC, Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendants-Appellees.