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6 Jul 2007, 5:43 am
  The new NCLC report documents the numerous problems with this practice, include a summary of the many studies indicating enormous racial disparities created by credit scoring. [read post]
29 Jun 2012, 6:22 am by Michael O'Hear
Indeed, some evidence suggests that class disparities may be more significant than racial disparities. [read post]
3 Sep 2019, 11:00 am by Neil Schoenherr
Louisans are exposed to considerably greater environmental risks than white residents, contributing to stark racial disparities regarding health, economic burdens and quality of life, finds a new report prepared by the School of Law’s Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic (IEC) at Washington University in St. [read post]
28 Aug 2013, 12:55 pm by Barbara S. Mishkin
  The Township asserts that this would result in distorted incentives for local policymakers that would undermine the FHA’s core objectives because (1) the cost and delay associated with disparate impact litigation could severely reduce the effectiveness of a redevelopment plan; (2) there would be strong political and economic incentives to build inefficiencies into a redevelopment plan to prevent a disparate impact claim, such as unnecessarily expanding a… [read post]
21 May 2019, 7:20 am by Ezra Rosser
The Article contends that crime-free housing ordinances enable racial segregation by importing the racial biases, racial logics, and racial disparities of the criminal legal system into private housing markets. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 4:22 am
So, as you can see, black and white defendants are charged with a capital felony about the same, but when it comes to a white victim, there is a significant disparity (about 21%). [read post]
13 Aug 2008, 11:52 pm
The study found other disparities, including that 18 percent of women convicted of a felony ended up in prison, compared with 37 percent of men. [read post]
17 Nov 2021, 9:05 pm by Lukas Gemar
But the APA does not offer racial minorities—or any protected class—refuge if agency decisions cause “disparate impacts,” discriminatory effects from apparently neutral policies. [read post]
13 Aug 2017, 5:46 pm by Wally Zimolong
 Croson rejects any percentage aimed towards “outright racial balancing. [read post]
13 Aug 2017, 5:46 pm by Wally Zimolong
 Croson rejects any percentage aimed towards “outright racial balancing. [read post]
23 Mar 2020, 8:25 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
The Court rejects the "motivating factor" test even though Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which also prohibits racial discrimination in employment) applies that test in disparate treatment cases. [read post]
3 Jul 2008, 5:21 pm
For instance, a defendant could cite statistical racial disparities in how the death penalty is used. [read post]
4 Apr 2018, 5:15 am
Racial disparities in policing, and police violence, reflect our past — and without reform will determine our future. [read post]
17 May 2009, 11:43 pm
Before that, police administrators and union reps would boldly claim to anyone who would listen that there was no evidence of racial disparities at traffic stops and critics didn't know what they were talking about.Then the numbers came out and the average disparity between races was well beyond statistically significant. [read post]
19 Jul 2022, 4:30 am by David Bernstein
The standard classifications -- Hispanic, American Indian, black, white, and Asian or Pacific Islander -- combine hundreds of vastly disparate ethnic groups into a handful of sprawling categories. [read post]