The U.S. Circuit of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will consider a case that poses an important employment law question: Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protect women from discrimination if they want to use a breast pump at work while lactating?

Mark Oberti, a partner in Houston’s Oberti Sullivan who represents the defendants in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Houston Funding II , maintains the case presents an issue of first impression in the circuit.