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Jury finds for Ohio teacher fired while pregnant

By Lisa Cornwell
Published June 3, 2013 4:00am ET
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Jury finds for Ohio teacher fired while pregnant
FILE - This is a Dec. 2011 file photo, Christa Dias holds her 11-month-old daughter in her Withamsville, Ohio home. Dias, a teacher who was fired from Catholic schools in 2010 after becoming pregnant through artificial insemination, testified Wednesday,May 29, 2013 in her federal lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati and two schools. She told jurors that she didn't know the procedure violated church doctrine or that she could be fired for it. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Gary Landers, File) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALES | Gary Landers

CINCINNATI (AP) — A jury has sided with a teacher who sued a Catholic archdiocese in Ohio, saying it violated anti-discrimination laws by firing her after she became pregnant via artificial insemination.

The federal jury found the Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati discriminated against Christa Dias (DEYE’-us) by firing her in 2010. The panel awarded her more than $170,000.

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