Jessica Maldonado v. U.S. Bank and Manufacturers Bank

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• allowing defense witness’s affidavit to change dep- osition testimony after witness consulted relevant records
• reversing grant of summary judgment to employer where employer “simply assumed that, because of her pregnancy, [plaintiff] would be absent from work for an indeterminate period sometime in the future”
• “Whether [plaintiffs supervisor] or [plaintiff] provided a more credible version of events is a judgment for a factfinder to make. On summary judgment, though, we must resolve this dispute in favor of [plaintiff]”
• “Congress amended Title VII in 1978 to explicitly extend protection to pregnant women.”
• “[Congress] designed the PDA specifically to address the stereotype that ‘women are less desirable employees because they are liable to become pregnant.’ ” (quoting Sheehan v. Donlen Corp., 173 F.3d 1039, 1045 (7th Cir. 1999))
• sham doctrine did not bar witness’s affidavit explaining earlier testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).