shaw
delta
air
lines
argued
january
decided
june
new
york
human
rights
law
forbids
discrimination
employee
benefit
plans
basis
pregnancy
disability
benefits
law
requires
employers
pay
benefits
employees
unable
work
pregnancy
section
federal
employee
retirement
income
security
act
erisa
provides
enumerated
exceptions
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shall
supersede
state
laws
insofar
may
hereafter
relate
employee
benefit
plan
covered
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erisa
mandate
employers
provide
particular
benefits
proscribe
discrimination
provision
employee
benefits
prior
effective
date
pregnancy
discrimination
act
pda
made
discrimination
based
pregnancy
unlawful
title
vii
civil
rights
act
appellee
employers
welfare
benefit
plans
subject
erisa
provide
benefits
employees
disabled
pregnancy
appellees
brought
three
separate
declaratory
judgment
actions
federal
district
alleging
human
rights
law
erisa
appellee
airlines
also
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disability
benefits
law
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case
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human
rights
law
least
insofar
required
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benefits
prior
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date
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appellee
airlines
challenge
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law
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employee
benefit
plan
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state
disability
insurance
laws
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appellees
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benefits
law
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portion
complaint
seeking
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law
appeals
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rights
law
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rights
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rights
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title
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human
rights
law
modify
impair
federal
law
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state
fair
employment
laws
administrative
remedies
play
significant
role
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enforcement
scheme
title
vii
erisa
interpreted
human
rights
law
entirely
respect
covered
benefit
plans
state
longer
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plans
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agency
longer
authorized
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relief
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employment
opportunity
commission
thus
unable
refer
claims
involving
covered
plans
state
agency
frustrate
goal
encouraging
joint
enforcement
title
vii
pp
insofar
state
laws
prohibit
employment
practices
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title
vii
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impair
title
vii
within
meaning
may
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laws
upon
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laws
title
vii
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history
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plans
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coverage
pp
state
may
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law
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employers
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obligations
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benefits
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plan
make
state
law
wholly
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employers
choose
option
blackmun
delivered
opinion
unanimous
together
shaw
acting
commissioner
new
york
state
division
human
rights
burroughs
shaw
acting
commissioner
new
york
state
division
human
rights
et
al
metropolitan
life
insurance
also
appeal
see
rule
deborah
bachrach
assistant
attorney
general
new
york
argued
cause
appellants
briefs
robert
abrams
attorney
general
peter
bienstock
robert
hermann
peter
schiff
daniel
berger
assistant
attorneys
general
gordon
dean
booth
argued
cause
appellees
brief
appellees
delta
air
lines
et
al
william
boice
robert
bernius
william
mcknight
robb
jones
filed
brief
appellee
burroughs
edward
silver
sara
portnoy
jeffrey
mishkin
filed
brief
appellee
metropolitan
life
insurance
fn
briefs
amici
curiae
urging
reversal
filed
leroy
zimmerman
attorney
general
ellen
doyle
commonwealth
pennsylvania
et
al
mary
heen
joan
bertin
isabelle
katz
pinzler
american
civil
liberties
union
et
al
albert
woll
marsha
berzon
laurence
gold
john
fillion
american
federation
labor
congress
industrial
organization
et
al
briefs
amici
curiae
urging
affirmance
filed
solicitor
general
lee
stuart
smith
timothy
ryan
kerry
adams
john
bryson
eugene
granof
george
pantos
erisa
industry
committee
et
al
walter
deforest
stuart
saltman
westinghouse
electric
justice
blackmun
delivered
opinion
new
york
human
rights
law
forbids
discrimination
employment
including
discrimination
employee
benefit
plans
basis
pregnancy
state
disability
benefits
law
requires
employers
pay
benefits
employees
unable
work
pregnancy
nonoccupational
disabilities
question
us
whether
new
york
laws
federal
employee
retirement
income
security
act
human
rights
law
exec
law
mckinney
supp
comprehensive
antidiscrimination
statute
prohibiting
among
practices
employment
discrimination
basis
sex
new
york
appeals
held
private
employer
whose
employee
benefit
plan
treats
pregnancy
differently
nonoccupational
disabilities
engages
sex
discrimination
within
meaning
human
rights
law
brooklyn
union
gas
new
york
state
human
rights
appeal
board
contrast
two
weeks
decision
brooklyn
union
gas
ruled
discrimination
based
pregnancy
sex
discrimination
title
vii
civil
rights
act
stat
amended
et
seq
general
electric
gilbert
congress
overcame
gilbert
ruling
enacting
pregnancy
discrimination
act
stat
supp
added
subsection
civil
rights
act
see
newport
news
shipbuilding
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dock
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act
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april
see
stat
human
rights
law
respect
reach
broader
title
vii
disability
benefits
law
work
comp
law
mckinney
supp
requires
employers
pay
certain
benefits
employees
unable
work
nonoccupational
injuries
illness
disabled
employees
generally
entitled
receive
lesser
per
week
average
weekly
wage
maximum
weeks
period
august
disability
benefits
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provided
employees
entitled
benefits
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june
employers
required
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eight
weeks
benefits
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formerly
codified
work
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law
limitation
repealed
see
laws
ch
disability
benefits
law
requires
employers
provide
benefits
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disability
federal
employee
retirement
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security
act
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stat
amended
et
seq
ed
supp
subjects
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regulation
plans
providing
employees
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comprehensive
statute
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beneficiaries
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benefit
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ed
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laws
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ii
appellees
litigation
delta
air
lines
airlines
airlines
burroughs
corporation
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metropolitan
life
insurance
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metropolitan
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employees
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plans
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plans
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act
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required
new
york
human
rights
law
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disability
benefits
law
appellees
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three
separate
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judgment
actions
appellant
state
agencies
officials
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rights
law
erisa
airlines
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similarly
district
case
held
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rights
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respect
airlines
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delta
air
lines
kramarsky
supp
sdny
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airlines
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pregnancy
benefits
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seeking
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second
circuit
affirmed
human
rights
law
delta
air
lines
kramarsky
metropolitan
life
insurance
kramarsky
burroughs
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relying
decision
alessi
ruling
pervel
industries
connecticut
commission
human
rights
opportunities
order
supp
cert
denied
held
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laws
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chemical
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opinion
new
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gaslight
club
carey
title
vii
expressly
preserves
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laws
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shall
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title
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title
vii
already
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plans
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title
vii
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employers
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law
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title
vii
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law
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title
vii
title
vii
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title
vii
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title
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appellants
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vii
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administration
employee
benefit
plans
see
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civil
rights
division
olson
scarborough
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snell
utilities
mont
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clyburn
albertson
washington
state
human
rights
app