The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued a Final Rule (the “Rule”) updating its regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ...

On December 9, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) published a final rule rejecting the use of disparate-impact liability, i.e., holding entities liable for discrimination due to a policy’s ...

The U.S. Justice Department has finalized a significant change to its civil rights enforcement framework, eliminating the use of a long-standing legal theory that allowed statistical disparities to be ...

For decades, the Justice Department has pursued wide swaths of its civil rights enforcement efforts guided by what’s known as disparate impact standards. These rules regulate the use and withholding ...

A student with a rare form of epilepsy said her school failed to accommodate her need for different instructional hours. The student won her case under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ...

In A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, Independent School District No. 279, the Supreme Court considered the obligation of schools to refrain from discriminating on the basis of a disability. Specifically, ...

"Although the plaintiffs assert that the caricature was 'so offensive' that intentional discrimination must be inferred, there is no evidence in the record to suggest that Kamen’s or any of its ...

Citations: Persico, Nicola, David Castleman. 2005. Detecting Bias: Using Statistical Evidence to Establish Intentional Discrimination in Racial Profiling Cases. University of Chicago Legal Forum.

May 13 (Reuters) - A former Northwestern law student can proceed with a discrimination lawsuit that claims the school failed to protect her from being harassed over her pro-Palestine activism, a ...