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correspondent pete williams from the supreme court. new america foundation liza mundy here in the studio. reporter: how far does it go? it clearly says an employer can t deny someone a pay or promotion or different job or favorable treatment just because they re pregnant. but what if a pregnant worker can t do the same job and requests light duty? that s what happened with peggy young. she got pregnant, her doctor said she shouldn t lift anything more than 20 pounds. she worked for u.p.s. she says i can still do my job picking up light packages at the airport. somebody else can help me with the really heavy ones, but u.p.s. said no, basically, your pregnancy is a liability. now, what her lawyers are claiming is basically this. u.p.s. is discriminating because it does make some accommodations for workers who have some on-the-job injury or off the job injury, or medical condition that temporarily makes it impossible for them to do their