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9 Sep 2015, 6:59 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
" Statistics in the complaint show a racial/national origin disparity, i.e., while 56 percent of the Sanitation Workers are white, 23.5 percent are black and 18 percent are Hispanic, 81-91 percent of the General Superintendents are white and 3-13 percent of them are black and Hispanic.Plaintiffs claim statistics alone can warrant a plausible inference of discrimination under Iqbal pleading standards. [read post]
15 Aug 2019, 11:31 am by Suzanne Seay
 I support addressing these disparities and focusing more attention on sickle cell. [read post]
5 May 2023, 12:04 pm by Sandra Park
Racial inequality is at the root of and continues to perpetuate housing injustice across communities. [read post]
19 Apr 2021, 12:30 pm by Matthew Guariglia
For example, a data set of arrests, even if they are nominally devoid of any racial information, can still be dangerous by virtue of the fact that police make a disparately high number of arrests in Black neighborhoods. [read post]
12 Jan 2016, 9:00 am
Today just two out of seven board members are Black.The underrepresentation of the Black community in shaping the way the district is governed is undemocratic and has had real consequences for students.The board has taken no efforts to address a wide racial achievement gap in the district, and it has permitted severe racial disparities in school discipline to persist. [read post]
16 Jul 2021, 11:57 am by Ria Tabacco Mar
Richardson’s exclusion cannot be divorced from racial disparities in marijuana enforcement, however. [read post]
25 Feb 2019, 3:00 pm
The impact is especially harsh for people of color due to longstanding racial disparities in wealth and poverty, perpetuating cycles of debt, instability, and criminal legal system involvement that hurts families and the public at large. [read post]
7 May 2020, 7:30 am by ACLU
Due to racial disparities in marijuana enforcement, these consequences disproportionately impact communities of color. [read post]
12 Aug 2021, 2:17 am by Michael DelSignore
New Bedford has cracked down on suspected gang activity in recent years, and the racial disparities appear here as well. [read post]
29 Jan 2020, 8:33 am by Maurice W. McLaughlin
  Because the incident had indicia of being racially motivated, or at least having a racially disparate impact, and allegations of racism by the same referee had previously been made, the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (DCR) and the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (known as NJSIAA, the Association self-regulates high school sports in New Jersey) begin a joint investigation. [read post]
3 Apr 2017, 4:08 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
 By fighting for nationwide reforms to police practices, indigent defense systems, disproportionate sentencing, and government abuses of authority in the name of fighting crime, and drug policies which have failed to achieve public safety and health while putting an unprecedented number of people behind bars, CLRP is working to reverse the tide of overincarceration, protect constitutional rights, eliminate racial disparities, and increase government accountability and… [read post]
13 Jul 2022, 4:30 am by Lawrence Solum
The cases also demonstrate the Court’s failure to connect past racial practices with present racial disparities, a failure that in turn paints a false picture of discontinuity of the past from the present. [read post]
18 May 2020, 4:45 am by Esha Bhandari
Exacerbating Racial Disparities and Disproportionately Harming People with Disabilities In the U.S., immunity passports could exacerbate existing racial disparities, harming workers of color and people with disabilities in particular. [read post]
28 Jun 2007, 11:54 am
" Other decisions have rejected using race to remedy "disparate impact," finding that doing so would devour the general rule against racial discrimination, since a prima facie case of disparate impact can be made against almost any employment or educational test or criterion, even if it is legitimate and business-related. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 12:31 pm by MorelliRatner
Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424 (1971), which explained the centrality of the disparate-impact concept to effective enforcement of Title VII.read more [read post]