DELTA AIR LINES, INC. v. KRAMARSKY

No. 77 Civ. 3358 (MEL).

485 F.Supp. 300 (1980)

DELTA AIR LINES, INC., Allegheny Airlines, Inc., National Airlines, Inc., Piedmont Aviation, Inc., Braniff Airways, Inc., North Central Airlines, Inc., Southern Airways, Inc., Eastern Air Lines, Inc., Northwest Airlines, Inc., Trans World Airlines, Inc., Ozark Air Lines, Inc., American Airlines, Inc., Pan American World Airways, Inc., and United Air Lines, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. Werner J. KRAMARSKY, Individually and in his capacity as Commissioner of the New York State Division of Human Rights; Ann Thacher Anderson, Individually and in her capacity as General Counsel of the New York State Division of Human Rights; the New York State Division of Human Rights, an agency of the Executive Department of the State of New York; Arthur Cooperman, Individually and in his capacity as Chairman of the New York State Workmen's Compensation Board; and the New York State Workmen's Compensation Board, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

January 28, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seward & Kissel, New York City and Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs; Dean Booth, J. Stanley Hawkins, Atlanta, Ga., of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, State Division of Human Rights, New York City, for defendants; Judith T. Kramer, Arnold D. Fleischer, Asst. Attys. Gen., New York City, Ann Thacher Anderson, New York City, of counsel.


LASKER, District Judge.

Fourteen airlines operating in New York State seek declaratory and injunctive relief from the application of two New York statutes which would require them to provide complete coverage in their employee benefit plans for disabilities related to pregnancy.

The statutes in question are the Human Rights Law (HRL), N.Y.Exec.Law §§ 290-301 (McKinney 1976), and the Disability Benefits Law (DBL), N.Y.Work.Comp.Law §§ 200...

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