The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit Wednesday alleging a pet waste removal company discriminated against a woman due to her high-risk pregnancy. Charlottesville, Virginia-based DoodyCalls Inc. hired Amanda Peal earlier this year to work as a pet waste technician ...

Tagged with: discrimination eeoc pregnancy U.S. District Court

The Supreme Court is rejecting a suggestion by the Trump administration that lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union might deserve to be sanctioned in the case of a pregnant immigrant teen it helped obtain an abortion.

Tagged with: abortion ACLU immigration pregnancy

Legislation to require state and local prisons to have written policies regarding pregnant inmates' medical care has passed the Senate and House of Delegates and appears headed to Gov. Larry Hogan’s desk pending additional, procedural votes.

Tagged with: abortion adoption foster-care pregnancy pregnant inmates Prison

For years, abortion-rights advocates have used the First Amendment as a weapon to challenge laws that require doctors to display an ultrasound or describe a fetus in detail to a patient. Now it's the anti-abortion side that says its speech rights are being violated.

Tagged with: abortion first amendment pregnancy

The University of Baltimore has settled a lawsuit alleging it discriminated against a pregnant employee.

Tagged with: Baltimore gender discrimination pregnancy u.s. department of justice University of Baltimore

A North Carolina woman has filed suit against Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore on behalf of herself and her deceased infant daughter, alleging the hospital staff was negligent in releasing her without proper treatment when she went to the emergency ...

Tagged with: hospital malpractice negligence pregnancy

Some of Maryland's local jails still shackle female inmates as they're giving birth--a harmful and unnecessary practice, women's advocates say.

Tagged with: inmates jails pregnancy prisons

WASHINGTON — Talk about a comeback: A treatment pulled off the market 30 years ago has won Food and Drug Administration approval again as the only drug specifically designated to treat morning sickness. That long-ago safety scare, prompted by hundreds ...

Tagged with: food and drug administration pregnancy

RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals court struggled for nearly three hours Thursday with whether two Maryland localities violated the free-speech rights of anti-abortion pregnancy counseling centers by requiring them to post certain disclaimers. In June, a three-judge panel of ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Baltimore free speech Law legal news Montgomery County pregnancy

A man who claims he impregnated his girlfriend while she was separated from her husband has no right to a paternity test, Maryland’s top court held Wednesday. William Corbett was seeking visitation rights with the child born to Amy Mulligan, ...

Tagged with: child Law marriage maryland maryland court of appeals Maryland Court of Special Appeals pregnancy