DOJ finds EEOC violated law by pressuring employers to make race-based decisions

The Justice Department accused the EEOC of violating civil rights laws by issuing guidelines that effectively pressured ...
JD Supra

Disparate Impact Discrimination in AI Underwriting Alleged Against Student Loan Company

On July 10, 2025, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office (AGO) reached a $2.5 million settlement with a private student loan company to resolve allegations that its lending practices violated ...
JD Supra

Think Carefully About Disparate Impact in Voir Dire

Thanks to Batson and associated cases, we now have an uneasy working rule on voir dire in U.S. courtrooms: In exercising peremptory strikes, you can pick and choose on any basis…other than ...

Illinois pushes back against Trump in move to ban disparate impact bias

Practices such as strength tests or criminal background checks have been the subject of disparate impact challenges in the ...
SCOTUSblog

Symposium: The case for disparate impact under the Fair Housing Act

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Joe Rich and Thomas Silverstein are attorneys at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, which filed an amicus ...
New York Post

Trump is restoring merit — by slaying rules that enforce reverse discrimination

Measured in Trump time, it took eons to announce — but the White House has finally taken the most important step it can to restore meritocracy to American society: eliminating disparate-impact theory ...
The Heritage Foundation

‘Disparate Impact’ Isn’t Enough

As Eric Holder’s Justice Department attacks voter-ID laws in Texas and North Carolina, the Heritage Foundation has warned courts that they should be wary of construing Section 2 of the Voting Rights ...
SCOTUSblog

Disparate-impact claims survive challenge: In Plain English

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Civil rights groups are breathing a little easier today, after the Court’s ruling in an important housing discrimination case.
The Hill

In attacking ‘disparate impact,’ Trump turns civil rights upside-down

The latest target in Trump’s war on civil rights is a legal theory known as “disparate impact.” An April 23 executive order calls for eliminating the theory “to the maximum degree possible.” According ...
Forbes

Federal Contractors And Disparate Impact Discrimination. What Workers Should Know

For example, certain federal contractors have special legal obligations when it comes to combating workplace discrimination. A notable example includes the steps the contractor must take to prevent ...
Education Week

Disparate Impact in School Discipline: What Does the Public Think?

Do teachers, parents, and the general public support district and federal efforts to make discipline more even-handed? A poll released this week by Education Next found high rates of opposition in all ...