Its impact was far-reaching, influencing subsequent civil rights legislation and shaping the nation's laws for decades. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination on the basis of race ...

President Donald Trump recently ordered federal agencies not to enforce laws that prohibit policies and practices with discriminatory impacts that are often unintended. Curbing so-called "disparate ...

To that end, it starts the process of repealing disparate-impact regulations accreted to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by subsequent administrations and requires the cataloguing of state laws that ...

The E.E.O.C. said it would stop paying state and local civil rights agencies for claims from transgender employees or those ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 marked the dawn of an era when Americans ... It also had significant impact on other legislation, such as the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1968 ...

Trump’s order directs federal agencies to “deprioritize enforcement” of statutes and regulations that include disparate-impact liability ... of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that bar any ...

Under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, that business could be sued for ... under the disparate impact standard. The effects of long-term systemic racism, sexism and other prejudices are ...

The behemoth of federal civil rights laws may originate with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but far too much ... to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum ...

The executive order calls for the repeal of agencies’ disparate impact regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and demands vague “appropriate action” (presumably dismissal ...

to remove the disparate-impact theory as an available avenue to prove a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended. While this Executive Order is very likely subject to legal challenge ...

would dismantle disparate impact liability — a legal theory codified in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that holds agencies accountable for practices that have an outsized ...