Disparate impact rules say any policy or test in which some races or sexes do better than others is illegal discrimination, ...

"It is their greatest weapon against excellence," she replied, "and it is an abuse of the spirit of our civil rights laws." Disparate impact rules say any policy or test in which some races or sexes ...

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. employees showed that the information technology company’s reliance on employees with H-1B visas had a disparate impact that unlawfully harmed non-Indian and ...

On April 23, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order titled Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy (the “EO”), marking a significant shift in federal civil rights enforcement. The ...

Time is dwindling in the current Supreme Court session, and the justices have yet to offer their opinion on a case connected with the use of disparate impact, one of the sharpest tools the Consumer ...

An ongoing lawsuit filed against Workday shows that AI risk in hiring is not theoretical, writes Benjamin Shippen of BRG.

As we have previously reported, an early focus of the second Trump administration has been to oppose and dismantle Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, both in the federal government ...

The data that President Trump put out on foreign countries' existing tariffs and non-tariff barriers turns out to be something else entirely, a fact already pointed out by me and others. Trump's table ...

The latest target in Trump’s war on civil rights is a legal theory known as “disparate impact.” An April 23 executive order calls for eliminating the theory “to the maximum degree possible.” According ...

Though it received less attention than some of President Donald Trump’s other executive orders, the principles embodied in EO 14281, “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy,” are ...