The threat to disparate impact analysis places our country at a crossroads. One path leads to public health scholarship and court practices that acknowledge and seek to overcome structural bias. The ...

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump recently ordered federal agencies, opens new tab not to enforce laws that prohibit policies and practices with discriminatory impacts that are often unintended.

Illinois SB 3777 could reshape disparate impact challenges involving hiring criteria, criminal history screening standards, ...

One of the headline-leading compliance issues during 2025 has been the Trump Administration’s announcement in Executive Order 14281(“Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy”) to “seek to ...

Elizabeth Price Foley and Jason Torchinsky rightly argue against an overreliance on statistics in adjudicating civil-rights cases. Yet in their op-ed “Disparate-Impact Theory Is Unconstitutional” (Dec ...

For decades, the federal government has used data analysis to ferret out race and sex discrimination, winning court cases and reaching settlements in housing, education, policing and across American ...