Massachusetts Electric Co. v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination

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• recognizing that a preemption defense could and normally should be raised before the Commission itself
• holding “any classification that relies on pregnancy as the determinative criterion is a distinction based on” gender
• providing that “any classification which relies on pregnancy as a determinative criterion is a distinction based on sex”
• noting “stereotype that women belong at home raising a family rather than at a job as permanent members of the work force”
• construing public accommodation administrative remedy within Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. ch. 151B, § 5 (West 2004)
• interpreting c. 151B, § 4, more expansively than the United States Supreme Court had interpreted similar language in § 703[a][l] of Title VH, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2[a][l]

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