Nearly 40 years after Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with what employers must do, if anything, to accommodate their pregnant workers under that law.

The 1978 law is only two sentences long, and the legal battle during lively, hour-long arguments in Young v. United States Parcel Service focused heavily on the second of two clauses in the first sentence.

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