Question: We have been cited by our regulator for disparate treatment. The matter is with our attorneys. However, in our discussions with staff it seems that we do not know the difference between ...

Late last month, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights hosted a conference called “Civil Rights and School Discipline: Addressing ...

Hans von Spakovsky and Elizabeth Slattery had a fine article earlier this week about Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., in which the Supreme ...

Legal expert Hans von Spakovsky explains what will happen because the Justice Department ended disparate impact regulations.

As Eric Holder’s Justice Department attacks voter-ID laws in Texas and North Carolina, the Heritage Foundation has warned courts that they should be wary of construing Section 2 of the Voting Rights ...

Joe Rich and Thomas Silverstein are attorneys at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, which filed an amicus brief in support of the respondent, Inclusive Communities Project. Texas ...

Regarding “Judges Can Check the Administrative State” by Peter J. Wallison (April 6): The best candidates for the kind of judicial action Mr. Wallison calls for are the disparate-impact regulations ...

What exactly does “discrimination” mean? Considering how prominently it features in American history and modern social policy, you might imagine the definition to be fairly well-settled. However, two ...

Two Italian doctors who were allegedly discriminated against by the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) can proceed with their disparate treatment claims, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to hear a challenge to one of the the Obama administration's most potent anti-discrimination tools, the statistics-based method known as disparate impact. The case, ...