42 U.S.C. § 2000e — Title VII definitions

Section 2000e(k) includes pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions within Title VII's sex terminology and states the provision's employment-treatment rule.

Evidence ID
evidence:v726:626e70a441e30925ca93
Issue
Pregnancy Discrimination
Verification
VERIFIED_BOUNDED_EVIDENCE_PROPOSITION
Support direction
SUPPORTS_OR_DEFINES
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office / Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Jurisdiction
United States federal

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42 U.S.C. § 2000e — Title VII definitions

Scope and limitations

The definition does not by itself establish employer coverage, an adverse action, a comparator, causation, or liability in a particular case.

Verification is bounded to the recorded proposition. It does not independently verify the complete issue or establish every relationship that might be plausible.

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Correction path
Structured correction packet
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