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28 Feb 2008, 4:30 am
Update: Here’s a copy CT death row inmates’ racial and geographical disparity challenge to the death penalty survived a motion to dismiss. [read post]
Those include: Racial Profiling Racial Disparities in Sentencing Racial Discrimination in the United States Capital Punishment System The Right to Vote Discriminatory Treatment of Guestworkers and Undocumented Migrant Workers Predatory Lending and the Foreclosure Crisis Lack of Due Process in American Indian Child Custody Proceedings in South Dakota The committee's final report and recommendations will be issued on August 29. [read post]
14 May 2018, 8:10 am by Richard J. Andreano, Jr.
”  In particular, the Supreme Court indicated that a disparate impact claim based upon a statistical disparity “must fail if the plaintiff cannot point to a defendant’s policy or policies causing that disparity” and that a “robust causality requirement” ensures that a mere racial imbalance, standing alone, does not establish a prima facie case of disparate impact, thereby protecting defendants “from… [read post]
5 Oct 2023, 4:00 am by Hannah Rahim
Addressing algorithmic bias at the federal level Following a promise by the Biden Administration in 2022 to conduct an “evidence-based examination of health care algorithms and racial and ethnic disparities,” the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), began a systematic review last year. [read post]
29 Sep 2022, 10:40 am by Dave Wieneke
Economic success and health are closer linked than in the past – and a difference in the length of life based on income is a disparity drives less healthy outcomes for racial, gender and other groups which receive lower incomes. [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 6:12 pm
With all the candidates focused on Iowa, now would be a good time for Iowans to ask them what they plan on doing to reduce the racial disparity in prison sentences for blacks and whites when it comes to drug crimes. [read post]
7 Aug 2022, 9:00 am by Tom Smith
Medical education, medical research, and standards of competence have been upended by two related hypotheses: that systemic racism is responsible both for racial disparities in the demographics of the medical profession and for racial disparities in health outcomes. [read post]
10 Jan 2022, 10:04 am by Jenna A. Agatep
  In his concurrence, Justice Lowy brought attention to the issues of racial disparities in, and concerns about the unreliability of, gang databases. [read post]
13 Nov 2019, 7:05 pm by Ezra Rosser
Given the historical discrimination and ongoing structural barriers that have locked women and people of color out of economic opportunity, such tax provisions not only exacerbate economic inequality, but also amplify gender and racial disparities. [read post]
29 Jun 2009, 8:13 am
The city feared a disparate impact lawsuit from unsuccessful minority applicants because the test results were skewed along racial lines. [read post]
2 Aug 2017, 12:21 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Racial bias looks for evidence of intent to discriminate, independent of evidence of racial disparities. [read post]
8 Aug 2017, 4:15 am by Nassiri Law
The Caucasian co-worker was not shown to be similarly situated to the plaintiff’s employment position, and therefore could not be used as an example of disparate treatment by SGS. [read post]
12 May 2009, 4:19 pm
The defendant could show racial disparities in that particular county, in that particular judicial district, or in the state as a whole. [read post]
17 Apr 2022, 9:05 pm by Olatunde C. Johnson
Some reasons for this disparity are distinct to vaccines. [read post]
The New York Times ran an article today showing the alarming racial disparities in the New York Police Department's (NYPD) stop-and-frisk practices. [read post]
25 Aug 2023, 6:57 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
”Plaintiff asserts a disparate impact claim, which allows the plaintiff to win if a facially-neutral employment practice has a disparate impact on racial minorities and the employer cannot prove that disparate impact is justified by business necessity. [read post]
16 May 2013, 6:47 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
The city therefore had to articulate a non-racial justification to rebut the presumption that it discriminated against racial minorities. [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 1:33 pm by Alex Kreit
Despite a New Year's resolution to resume regular posts to this blog, I have somehow managed not to write a single one until now. [read post]