AT & T CORP. v. HULTEEN

No. 07-543.

129 S.Ct. 1962 (2009)

556 U.S. 701

173 L.Ed.2d 898

AT & T CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. Noreen HULTEEN et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 18, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carter G. Phillips , Washington, DC, for petitioner.

Lisa S. Blatt , for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the petitioner.

Kevin Russell , Bethesda, MD, for respondents.

Wayne Watts , Senior Executive Vice President & General Counsel, San Antonio, TX, Carter G. Phillips , Counsel of Record, Joseph R. Guerra , Virginia A. Seitz , Pankaj Venugopal , Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, D.C., Edward R. Barillari , Senior Vice President & Asst. General Counsel, Bedminster, NJ, for Petitioner.

Amy Howe , Kevin K. Russell , Howe & Russell, P.C., Bethesda, MD, Henry S. Hewitt , Erickson, Beasley & Hewitt, Oakland, CA, Blythe Mickelson , Kerianne R. Steele , Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, Alameda, CA, Judith E. Kurtz , Counsel of Record, Law Offices of Judith Kurtz, San Francisco, CA, Mary K. O'Melveny , Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC, Noreen Farrell , Debra Smith , Equal Rights Advocates, San Francisco, CA, Pamela S. Karlan , Stanford Law School, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Stanford, CA, for respondents.


The question is whether an employer necessarily violates the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(k), when it pays pension benefits calculated in part under an accrual rule, applied only prior to the PDA, that gave less retirement credit for pregnancy leave than for medical...

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