Social Media Ideas for Disparate Impact

SBA Drops Disparate Impact but Says Workforce Data Can Still Prove Intent

Mortgage Trade Group Challenges New Jersey Disparate Impact Rules

On September 3, a national mortgage trade association filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey challenging the state’s disparate impact rules under...

MBA Sues New Jersey Over Disparate Impact Rule

Fourteen States Remind Employers: Disparate Impact Enforcement Is Not Going Away

Mortgage Bankers Association sues to block New Jersey's new disparate-impact rule

The industry says the state's new rule leaves lenders one way out - and federal law bars it

The continuing diversity obsession

Dozens of “gap” statistics have become so deeply embedded in our political discourse that we hardly question whether unequal outcomes are actually evidence of discrimination. “Wome...

The Judge's Rationale: Sirius XM Cleared in AI Hiring-Discrimination Lawsuit

A federal judge's decision dismissing a suit alleging AI hiring tools resulted in discrimination against Black applicants could be instructive, as interest in algorithms in the hir...

Final Rules Dismantle Civil Rights Protections for Minorities, Women, Individuals with Disabilities, and Veterans

Ditch the DEI: HUD to Investigate Whether Wells Fargo's Home Loans Skirted Fair Housing Act

Colleges Are Still Discriminating by Race

Louisiana wins court battle over Title VI disparate-impact requirements

BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) -- A federal judge has blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice from enforcing certain Title VI disparate-impact requireme...

California adds fair lending teeth to routine mortgage exams

Nondiscrimination violations now carry the same consequences as any CRMLA breach

Judge tosses former Purdue diversity chief’s race bias and retaliation claims

The executive offered up three colleagues as similarly situated comparators — and the judge dismissed all three.

Unpacking the Senate Permitting Reform Bill: Disparate Treatment for Permits

This post continues my review of the provisions of the Senate Permitting Reform Bill, focusing on the disparate treatment permit provisions in Title IV.  My introduction to the cov...

White HR worker gets partial win in reverse bias lawsuit against polling firm

Among other claims, the plaintiff alleged she was excluded from a company-organized diversity, equity and inclusion webinar described as “not for [W]hite folks.”

The Judge's Rationale: Sirius XM Cleared in AI Hiring-Discrimination Lawsuit

A federal judge’s decision dismissing a suit alleging AI hiring tools resulted in discrimination against Black applicants could be instructive, as interest in algorithms in the hir...

FDNY Prevails in EMS Promotion Discrimination Suit

A federal judge has granted summary judgment to the City of New York in a long-running discrimination suit brought by two FDNY EMS officers and their union challenging the promotio...

Sirius XM beats allegations of AI-fueled racial bias

The plaintiff had applied to about 150 open roles and faced questions about his use of multiple addresses, among other issues.

Postal worker removed from office argument by police fails to reopen bias case

Other staff may have engaged in similar disputes, but the plaintiff couldn’t show that those workers were given more favorable treatment, the 7th Circuit said.

Race bias claims tied to drug test can go to jury, 11th Circuit says

Evidence showed an employer rehired a White employee but not two Black employees after firing all three for the same conduct, the court said.

The Racial Disparities of Flood Buyouts

Black homeowners are paid less than white homeowners under a FEMA program, new research finds.

We need lawfare for white men

For decades, American hiring and admissions have been distorted by a legal and bureaucratic regime that promised equal treatment while repeatedly rewarding institutions for sorting...

More ‘even-handed’: Understanding EEOC’s direction on national origin bias

Under Trump 2.0, the agency has shifted its focus to anti-American bias rather than discrimination against immigrants.

Predictive Coding Strategies to Identify Patterns of Discrimination

Predictive Coding Strategies to Identify Patterns of Discriminationby Joshua Gilliland