PALLAS v. PACIFIC BELL

No. 90-15559.

940 F.2d 1324 (1991)

Lana PALLAS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PACIFIC BELL; Pacific Telesis, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 12, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maria Blanco, Equal Rights Advocates, and Robert Hirsch, Van Bourg, Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

C. Douglas Floyd, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Before SCHROEDER and FARRIS, Circuit Judges, and DUMBAULD, District Judge.


SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

Lana Pallas filed this suit against her employer, Pacific Bell, and its predecessor companies (collectively "Pacific Bell"), claiming that the company has discriminated against her on the basis of gender and pregnancy. Pacific Bell denied her retirement benefits in 1987 based on a method of calculating employee service time that does not credit pregnancy leaves taken prior to 1979 but credits temporary disability leaves taken during the same...

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