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9 Jul 2015, 10:14 am by Rich Vetstein
Surprising to most folks is that under a disparate impact theory, the claimant need not show some type of “smoking gun” evidence of direct racial discrimination, like something Donald Sterling would say, such as “we don’t like to rent to black folks. [read post]
27 Apr 2021, 8:11 am by Ezra Rosser
  The KLJ symposium is entitled The Racial Wealth Gap, and will focus on the legal and historical factors that have contributed to the current state of the wealth disparity in the United States that falls largely along racial lines. [read post]
14 Aug 2014, 2:58 pm
Given the racial disparities in our criminal justice system, it is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them. [read post]
18 Jul 2008, 8:00 am
Kerry (D-MA), today introduced the Justice Integrity Act, legislation designed to increase public confidence in the justice system and address any unwarranted racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal process. [read post]
24 Mar 2017, 4:58 am by Derek Black
While school suspension rates have fallen sharply in recent years in California, the racially disproportionate impact of this form of punishment has persisted. [read post]
21 Feb 2013, 3:21 pm by Dan Filler
  If true, you can stack this disparity on top of the racial skew I documented several years ago with respect to people subject to sexual offender community notification. [read post]
6 Jan 2015, 7:19 am by Amy Howe
It emphasizes that Congress passed the Act to correct the consequences of both intentional racial segregation by the government and practices by the housing industry that had the effect of continuing racial segregation. [read post]
29 Nov 2007, 5:02 am
Lastly, and somewhat surprisingly, we find racial disparities in attorney performance: attorneys of Hispanic origin achieve lower average incarceration than all other racial attorney groups. [read post]
6 Jan 2019, 10:08 am by Douglas A. Berman
This notable new Baltimore Sun editorial, headlined "More blacks still arrested for marijuana charges," spotlights with new data a point I made in this recent post, namely that decriminalization reforms will not eliminate the harmful and disparate aspects of marijuana prohibition. [read post]
26 Jul 2017, 1:13 pm by Adam Kielich
No disparate impact discrimination claims under Section 1981 Disparate impact discrimination claims relate to facially neutral claims that have a discriminatory basis. [read post]
29 Jun 2009, 7:23 am
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court holds that throwing out test results based on the racial distribution is disparate treatment and that fear of a disparate impact lawsuit is not a valid defense to it under Title VII. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 7:28 pm by Howard Bashman
“The Massacre of Black Sharecroppers That Led the Supreme Court to Curb the Racial Disparities of the Justice System; White Arkansans, fearful of what would happen if African-Americans organized, took violent action, but it was the victims who ended up standing trial”: Francine Uenuma has this article online at Smithsonian.com. [read post]
15 Sep 2021, 3:30 am by Eboni Nelson
According to Professor Hart, this disparate reality can be explained, in part, by the historical and present operation of contracts and contract law in our society. [read post]
1 Jul 2020, 3:48 pm by Brian Dalton
How can we resolve racial disparity in the legal profession? [read post]