Red States Lose Bid to Pause EEOC Pregnancy Rule During Appeal

A federal judge in Arkansas declined to put the EEOC’s final pregnancy accommodation rule on hold while a group of 17 Republican attorneys general ask an appeals court to block it.

• The red states, which oppose the rule’s abortion provisions, are unlikely to succeed in their appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit because they still lack standing, Judge D. P. Marshall Jr. of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas said Friday
• Marshall echoed his ruling from last week in which he found the states failed to show they were harmed by ...