The agency’s rollback is a direct follow-up to President Donald Trump’s April executive order calling to “deprioritize” ...

The Office of the Comptroller of Currency said it will no longer include examinations for disparate impact liability but will ...

What is most striking is the brazen hypocrisy — one might even say chutzpah — of the Trump lawyers’ arguments.

The decision explained that disparate-impact liability “plays an important role in uncovering discriminatory intent: It permits plaintiffs to counteract unconscious prejudices and disguised animus ...

Disparate impact liability holds that policies that are neutral on their face can violate civil rights laws if they impose artificial barriers that disadvantage different demographic groups.

Disparate impact liability holds that policies that are neutral on their face can violate civil rights laws if they impose artificial barriers that disadvantage different demographic groups.

What's the potential fallout of scrapping disparate impact? The Justice Department, EEOC and other federal agencies have moved quickly to quash the use of disparate impact liability.

Disparate impact liability holds that policies that are neutral on their face can violate civil rights laws if they impose artificial barriers that disadvantage different demographic groups.

Authorities plan to drop a lawsuit against Sheetz, part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to halt the use of a key tool for enforcing civil rights laws.

Disparate impact liability holds that employment policies that are neutral on their face could violate civil rights laws if they unfairly disadvantage different demographic groups.