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6 Jan 2023, 10:53 am
The goal is to reduce the number of people incarcerated in order to achieve better results when it comes to recidivism rates, reducing racial disparities, and better economic outcomes for those involved. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 9:43 am
Applying what is believed to be the first ever independent, company-specific statistical analysis of racial disparity in State Farm claims, the suit alleges that the discriminatory impact is driven by series of policies in effect at State Farm that make Black homeowners subject to more scrutiny, delays, and paperwork requests, among other administrative burdens. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 7:31 am
With companies required to allow employees to disclose compensation information, it’s much harder to ignore potential disparities in wages among employees who perform similar jobs. [read post]
Myong Nam Kim v. Board of Liquor License Commissioners for Baltimore City (Md. Ct. of Spec. Appeals)
3 Jan 2023, 6:00 am
Their reliance on the legislative history materials concerning Chapter 389, as well as the Census data showing the racial distribution of different neighborhoods in Baltimore City simply show, at most, a racially disparate impact. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 5:53 am
Important changes in the last decade have understandably reflected both a growing frustration with the services’ inability to reduce the incidence of sexual assault in the armed forces and a growing recognition of racial disparities in the administration of justice. [read post]
30 Dec 2022, 3:45 pm
A refusal to allow remote work could possibly amount to sex discrimination if that policy had a disparate impact on women (such as working mothers.) [read post]
30 Dec 2022, 11:45 am
Other students are on racial disparities: How often are people of different races subject to Terry stops? [read post]
29 Dec 2022, 9:09 am
The court says the school had “the role of protecting other students from being maltreated by their classmates….a failure by the school to respond to Epple’s harassment might have exposed it to potential liability on the theory that it had ‘failed to respond adequately’ to a ‘racially hostile environment’ of which it had become aware. [read post]
28 Dec 2022, 5:45 am
In essence, the question posed is whether a legal system can regard difference disparately between its foreign-facing and domestic aspects. [read post]
26 Dec 2022, 10:07 am
NEW YORK — Ricki Fairley, a 11-year late-stage breast cancer survivor and advocate, is fighting hard to improve the chances for Black women to overcome breast cancer and to address the racial disparities in treatment. [read post]
19 Dec 2022, 7:46 am
Attorney General Merrick Garland has taken action to end sentencing disparities that have imposed harsher penalties for different forms of cocaine and worsened racial inequity. [read post]
17 Dec 2022, 2:18 pm
This policy applies with particular force in drug cases brought under Title 21 of the United States Code, where mandatory minimum sentences based on drug type and quantity have resulted in disproportionately severe sentences for certain defendants with perceived and actual racial disparities in the criminal justice system. [read post]
17 Dec 2022, 4:06 am
The second argument, that the disparity is that the guidelines differential is “still responsible for unwarranted racial disparities in sentencing” is another “everybody knows” argument that plays off popular opinions of the moment making everything about racial disparity without so much as a thought about correlation and causation. [read post]
16 Dec 2022, 6:30 am
Admittedly, constructing and maintaining the mindset of racial innocence in a world of evident racial disparities certainly entails concerted effort. [read post]
15 Dec 2022, 5:14 pm
This article was co-authored with Jessica Kamleh. [read post]
15 Dec 2022, 12:47 pm
Aliza Hochman Bloom (New England Law | Boston) has posted 'What Has Always Been True': The Washington Supreme Court Decides That Seizure Law Must Account for Racial Disparity in Policing (Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 107, No. 1, 2022) on SSRN.... [read post]
14 Dec 2022, 4:47 am
Racist policies and practices throughout the past half-century, including disparate drug enforcement, broken-windows policing, and the New York City Police Department’s unconstitutional stop-and-frisk program, shape the racial composition of the jury pool today. [read post]
12 Dec 2022, 4:02 am
Reform advocates say no other single federal policy is more responsible for gross racial disparities in the federal criminal justice system than the crack/power sentencing disparity. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 9:05 pm
Consequently, child welfare advocates and professionals worry about discrimination and racial inequity pervading the existing system. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 8:24 am
According to the NYCLU, the disparity is rooted in racist policies and practices throughout the past half-century, including disparate drug enforcement, broken-windows policing and the New York City Police Department’s unconstitutional stop-and-frisk program. [read post]
