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  1. July 10, 2015

    Teacher Fired For IVF Would Accept Lower Award

    A former schoolteacher who won a settlement after being fired by an Indiana Catholic diocese for undergoing in vitro fertilization told an Indiana federal judge Thursday she is willing to accept a remittitur rather than undergo a new trial, but believes the medical care damages reflected in the award are inaccurate.

  2. July 08, 2015

    Catholic Teacher Fired For IVF Must Choose Award Or Retrial

    A schoolteacher fired by an Indiana Catholic diocese for undergoing in vitro fertilization could have to go through a new damages trial if she rejects a reduced $411,000 award, a federal judge said Tuesday in a post-verdict dispute that has carried on for most of the year.

  3. January 14, 2015

    Catholic Teacher Seeks Fees After IVF Firing Award Slashed

    A former schoolteacher who was fired by an Indiana Catholic diocese for undergoing in vitro fertilization asked a federal court Tuesday to award her more than $750,000 in legal fees and costs, a day after her nearly $2 million award was reduced to just over $500,000.

  4. December 22, 2014

    Indiana Catholic Diocese Must Pay $2M in IVF Sex Bias Suit

    An Indiana Catholic diocese on Friday was hit with a $2 million verdict in Indiana federal court after a jury found that it had discriminated against a former schoolteacher by firing her for undergoing in vitro fertilization, even though it hadn't fired men for participating in the IVF process.

  5. November 03, 2014

    Diocese Pushes 7th Circ. For Stay In IVF Firing Suit

    A Catholic diocese has urged the Seventh Circuit to put the brakes on a sex bias lawsuit brought by a teacher who lost her job for undergoing in vitro fertilization, claiming the diocese's challenge to a recent ruling should put proceedings at the lower court on hold. 

  6. September 12, 2014

    Diocese Turns To 7th Circ. In Teacher's IVF Sex Bias Suit

    A Catholic diocese on Friday appealed an Indiana federal court's refusal to dismiss a sex bias claim brought by a teacher who lost her job for undergoing in vitro fertilization, challenging the conclusion that Title VII exemptions for religious employers weren't applicable. 

  7. September 03, 2014

    Judge Trims Bias Suit Over Diocese's IVF-Related Firing

    An Indiana federal judge on Wednesday trimmed a civil rights suit accusing an Indiana Catholic diocese of firing a schoolteacher for undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment, finding insufficient evidence that she was fired for being infertile, though he refused to toss a sex discrimination claim.

  8. June 12, 2014

    Diocese Says It's Exempt From Suit Over IVF-Related Firing

    An Indiana Catholic diocese on Thursday told an Indiana federal court to toss a suit brought against it by a Catholic-school teacher who lost her job after undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment, saying the decision was protected by exemptions for religious employers in federal civil rights and anti-discrimination laws.

  9. October 08, 2013

    Catholic Teacher Axed Over IVF Gets Broad Discovery OK'd

    An Indiana federal court ruled Monday that constitutional and statutory protections for religious institutions don't shield an Indiana diocese from having to respond to discovery requests made by a former Catholic-school teacher who lost her job after undergoing in vitro fertilization treatments.

  10. September 27, 2013

    Diocese Fights Discovery In Teacher's Suit Over In Vitro

    A Catholic schoolteacher who filed a bias suit against an Indiana diocese for firing her after she underwent in vitro fertilization treatment had misinterpreted a prior ruling in the case as a green light for "unbridled discovery," the diocese told a federal court Wednesday.

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