JD Supra

Executive Order Limits Use of Disparate Impact Theory Under Civil Rights Act

On April 23, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order that is intended to limit employees' and applicants' abilities to use the disparate impact theory of liability to establish ...
Yahoo

Trump Just Issued an Executive Order Aimed at Decimating the Civil Rights Act of 1964

When large bipartisan majorities of Congress enacted and subsequently amended the nation’s major civil rights laws during both Democratic and Republican presidencies, policymakers were aware of two ...
The Daily Signal

DOJ Drops ‘Disparate Impact’ Standard in Civil Rights Law. It’s a Huge Win for Equality Under the Law.

Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of "The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past." Send an email to Jarrett The Trump administration is ...
Wall Street Journal

Statistics Isn’t an Enemy of Civil-Rights Law

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 ...
insider.si.edu

Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act / edited by Bernard Grofman

The origin and enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 / David B. Filvaroff and Raymond E. Wolfinger -- What light does the Civil Rights Act of 1875 shed on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 / J. Morgan ...