This article appeared in The Wall Street Journal: When Michelle Lawrence discovered she was pregnant, she avoided telling Ron Rogers, the owner of the Los Angeles public relations agency where she...

This article appeared in The Wall Street Journal: When Michelle Lawrence discovered she was pregnant, she avoided telling Ron Rogers, the owner of the Los Angeles public relations agency where she worked as manager of media relations. “I had heard he wasn’t crazy about pregnant women,” she says. Instead, she asked her immediate supervisor to pass along the news. Mr. Rogers didn’t speak to her for a week. His first comment was, “Congratulations on your pregnancy. My sister vomited for months.” A few weeks later, Ms. Lawrence was fired. Mr. Rogers told her the business was shifting away from her area of expertise.37 Does Lawrence have a valid claim against Rogers? Under what law?