EEOC Pregnancy Bias Rule Survives Challenge Over Abortion (1)

A coalition of 17 Republican attorneys general lost their effort to temporarily block the EEOC’s recently finalized pregnancy bias regulation that covers workplace accommodations for abortions.

Judge D. P. Marshall Jr. of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas on Friday rejected as moot a preliminary injunction request from Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, who led the lawsuit alongside Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin.

The judge said the states lack standing to bring the suit and so the court doesn’t have the jurisdiction to issue the order, which would have blocked the rule while litigation over its ...