Hiring or promotion practices that “prioritizes candidates from underrepresented groups” for admission, hiring, promotion, bypassing qualified candidates who do not belong to those groups. Creating a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The law "draws no distinctions between majority-group plaintiffs and minority-group plaintiffs," said Justice Ketanji Brown ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 14 other attorneys general have filed an amicus brief in support of a petition to ...

The federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act prevents health insurers and employers from discriminating against a ...

Katie Eyer discusses how courts’ statutory interpretation shapes civil rights enforcement. In a conversation with The ...

Cassie Alfheim, David Cohen, M.S. Late last month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released a memorandum emphasizing that discrimination by recipients of federal funds will no longer be tolerated.

Allentown City Council voted unanimously Wednesday evening to repeal and replace its anti-discrimination law, which dates to 1963, with a new ordinance that mirrors the most “up-to-date and inclusive” ...

Over the last eight months, a Section 8 tenant has filed dozens of housing lawsuits alleging $100,000 in damages. Her lawyer calls it a fight against discrimination. Defendants call it a shakedown.

A New York appeals court has stricken down a state law that bans discrimination against people who use government assistance to pay their rent. The state Supreme Court's Appellate Division, Third ...

A measure that would prohibit cities and counties from enforcing anti-discrimination ordinances that go beyond state law is headed to the Senate State Affairs Committee. Idaho House Bill 557, bill ...