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9 Dec 2022, 6:08 am by Michael Caruso
""Federal judges routinely misapply the “presumption of detention” statute that applies in drug cases, improperly treating it as a mandate for jailing and fueling racial disparities. [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 10:42 am by Ezra Rosser
This Essay describes the roles public and private actors have played and continue to play in creating racial disparities in U.S. housing markets. [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 7:02 am by Hina Naveed
” Our analysis of nationwide child welfare data showed alarming racial and ethnic disparities. [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 7:02 am by Hina Naveed
” Our analysis of nationwide child welfare data showed alarming racial and ethnic disparities. [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 7:01 am by Reference Staff
Chief among them is advocating for legislation on the qualified immunity defense.Noticeably absent from the text is an extensive treatment of racial disparities in use-of-force cases. [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
The book encourages us to continue to wrestle with the import of interpreting statutory language in ways that encourage a one size fits all approach to addressing social problems facing disparate social groups. [read post]
7 Dec 2022, 9:04 am by Michael Heise
We also find suggestive evidence that eliminating sobriety checkpoints increases racial disparities in DUI and cannabis possession arrests, with larger impacts on arrests among Black residents. [read post]
2 Dec 2022, 11:01 am by Brent Wieand
Minorities Receive Lowest Staffing Levels Racial disparities are particularly prominent in nursing homes, and understaffing is particularly prevalent at nursing homes that serve many minority residents. [read post]
30 Nov 2022, 9:05 pm by Taylor Ross
OCR has yet to use its regulatory authority to address racialized school funding disparities at the state level. [read post]
29 Nov 2022, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh
A lawyer who thinks that practices that have a racially disparate impact are "structural racism" that needs to be fought may nonetheless sometimes need to make an argument that, for a particular client in a particular case, such disparate impact should not be seen as legally significant. [read post]
27 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
Four of the defendants, including Johnson, were Black, and one was White.McCulloch sought the death penalty against all of the Black defendants but not the White one, even though the latter had bragged on social media about his desire to shoot police officers.In other evidence of racial disparity, McCulloch invited the White defendant’s lawyer to submit any evidence as to why McCulloch should not ask for the death penalty in advance of his charging decision. [read post]
22 Nov 2022, 10:06 am by Irene
Another college article states that the NSF funds “will support research that will help guide more effective and inclusive public engagement efforts and provide practitioners with new insight on how to responsibly address past and present racial inequities across a variety of scientific and policy areas. [read post]
21 Nov 2022, 6:43 am by Ezra Rosser
Policies that favor homeowners by providing water discounts only to account holders while ignoring the impacts of rising water prices on hard-to-reach renters clearly have a disparate racial impact. [read post]
21 Nov 2022, 4:30 am by Eric B. Meyer
A white man who worked as a utility water meter reader sued his employer for racial discrimination after he was fired for inaccurately reporting homeowners’ water meters. [read post]
20 Nov 2022, 9:55 am by David Kopel
Bowie knives are back in constitutional law news these days, after a very long absence. [read post]
19 Nov 2022, 8:41 am by Eugene Volokh
Plus given how many people view a vast range as "structural racism," does it follow that people who defend them (and perhaps fight the premise that racially disparate impacts are "racism") are therefore themselves engaged in "racism"? [read post]
18 Nov 2022, 10:00 pm
(That disparity was first picked up in 2021 Newsday report on the lack of diversity in the Nassau and Suffolk County Police Departments.)Professor Randolph McLaughlin, Co-Chair of Newman Ferrara’s Civil Rights Group, in a recent Newsday article about the case, noted:“Officers Myers’ complaint takes a brave stand against long-standing discrimination, which is pervasive throughout the [hiring] process and routinely transforms applicant pools that initially mirror the… [read post]