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    Pregnant nurses at this hospital needed a doctor's certificate saying they could lift 150 lbs., or they were forced out.
    But the hospital never tested any nurse or expected any nurse to lift 150 lbs. on the job. The 150 lb. lifting requirement was purely artificial. It discriminated against pregnant nurses.
  UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS, FIFTH CIRCUIT (TEXAS), 1996.