Results for: disparate impact

'Restorative Justice' Doesn't Help Students Who Act Out. Consequences Do.
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/08/07/students-dont-need-restorative-justice-they-need-consequences-n4955911
– As the Los Angeles school district went, so went the nation, as most school boards adopted the "disparate impact" rationale and stopped … impact" that I've written about more than a dozen times over the last decade and a half. … Trump has been trying to abolish "disparate impact" formulations in government, but it's a long, tedious process, given that the concept…
Quietly, and Without Much Fanfare, the Justice Department Struck a Massive Blow For Equality
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/06/20/very-quietly-and-w…stice-department-struck-a-massive-blow-for-equality-n4954175
– Disparate impact" doesn't look at whether employment policy is intentionally discriminatory. … In 1971, the Supreme Court unanimously established the doctrine of disparate impact. … of untangling the disparate impact standard from employment law.…
DOJ Ends 'Disparate Impact Liability' in a Huge Win for Equality Under the Law
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/12/11/doj-ends-disparate…liability-in-a-huge-win-for-equality-under-the-law-n4946936
– The disparate impact process grew from a 1971 Supreme Court case, Griggs v. Duke Power Co. … The concept of disparate impact stretches that idea to the point of incoherence. … And Bondi’s memo notes that “eliminating disparate-impact liability does not preclude the use of data on disparate outcomes to help…
The Decline of Climate Alarmism and the Rise of Climate Realists
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/12/12/the-decline-of-climate-alarmism-and-the-rise-of-climate-realists-n4946980
– Recommended: DOJ Ends 'Disparate Impact Liability' in a Huge Win for Equality Under the LawWe will look back on this period in the…
The 'Disparate Impact' Flim-Flam Is Ending
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/09/30/the-disparate-impact-flim-flam-is-ending-n4944299
– The order took direct aim at the so-called "disparate impact theory" that has been melded with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of … The disparate impact process grew from a 1971 Supreme Court case, Griggs v. Duke Power Co. … However, the disparate impact theory has never been challenged to such a degree.…
Why There's a Difference Between Left-Wing 'Cancel Culture' and the Right's Emphasis on Public Debate
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/09/16/why-theres-a-diffe…el-culture-and-the-rights-emphasis-on-public-debate-n4943762
– basis of biological sex, the ambiguous data behind climate change and policies to mitigate it, and the illogic and prejudice of disparate … impact theory, to name a few.…
Colleges Requested Not to Ask if 'Justice-Involved Individuals' Have a Criminal Record
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2016/05/15/colleges-no-longer…f-justice-involved-individuals-have-a-criminal-record-n46483
– It’s the “disparate impact” of it all, don’t you know. … impact” arises. … Nothing scares an institution of higher education more than being accused of facilitating “disparate impact.”  …
Holder: 'Proud to Be an Activist'
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2014/08/04/holder-proud-to-be-an-activist-n194522
– conservative protests that he is an ‘activist’ looking for trouble by digging into what he calls “policies [with] disproportionate impact … Disparate racial outcomes “are not only shameful and unacceptable – they impede our ability to see that justice is done,” Holder said … Finally, basing public policy on “outcomes” of any kind — disparate or not — violates the spirit of the Constitution and sound public…
East Coast States Will Sue Feds Over Tax Law
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2018/01/27/east-coast-states-will-sue-feds-tax-law-n55864
– Given the tax code’s complexity, nearly every provision will have some disparate impact on some state or another. … The question is whether that differential impact resulted from an invidious congressional motive.…
The 'Disparate Impact' Fallacy Should End Along With DEI
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/02/06/the-disparate-impact-fallacy-should-end-along-with-dei-n4936738
– There could be no disparate impact on blacks or other minorities.Disparate impact legal theory explains that even if the company's … stated intentions are in compliance with the law, raw statistics can "prove" discrimination.Bloomberg Law:The disparate impact theory … “Everything is going to have a disparate impact on some protected class, so the first problem with disparate impact liability is that…
Transportation Department Halts Plan to Build Thousands of EV Charger Stations
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/02/07/transportation-dep…alts-plan-to-build-thousands-of-ev-charger-stations-n4936770
– the mountains of red tape the Biden administration forced states to add to the program — including DEI mandates, environmental impact … boondoggle, and perhaps streamlining the entire process would speed up the construction of the stations.Exclusively for our VIPs: The 'Disparate … Impact' Fallacy Should End Along With DEINaturally, there is opposition to the plan.…
California to Consider 14 Reparations Bills
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/02/01/california-to-consider-14-reparations-bills-but-no-cash-payments-n4926018
– There's no proof needed except being able to show that a policy had a "disparate impact" on black people.…
Suppose They Created a Nuclear Treaty and No Nuclear Powers Signed It?
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2021/01/23/suppose-they-created-a-nuclear-treaty-and-no-nuclear-powers-signed-it-n1406716
– Once you delegitimize that conduct, it completely has an impact on the policymaking process,” she said.  … But the treaty wouldn’t be complete without a “disparate impact” statement. … socioeconomic development, the global economy, food security and the health of current and future generations, and have a disproportionate impact…
The Right's Valley Forge
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2015/06/26/the-rights-valley-forge-n201612
– subsidies for the Affordable Care Act, granting a nationwide right for gay marriage, and ruling that housing policies that have a disparate … impact on race are unconstitutional — even if no discrimination is intended — is a triple whammy for conservatives and the rule of…
Obama Administration's Racial Database Contains Your Personal Information
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2015/07/18/obama-administrati…s-racial-database-contains-your-personal-information-n201985
– stockpile of statistics includes a vast and permanent network of discrimination databases, which Obama already is using to make “disparate … impact” cases against: banks that don’t make enough prime loans to minorities; schools that suspend too many blacks; cities that don … Armed with the “disparate impact” weapon recently granted by the Supreme Court, it won’t matter if a city is working to alleviate segregated…
A Government of Thugs and Extortionists
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2016/02/08/a-government-of-thugs-and-extortionists-n45445
– “Some of the claims being made in this case present issues, such as use of [race] proxying and reliance on the disparate-impact doctrine…
Trump Signs the Most Impactful Executive Order Yet
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/04/25/trump-signs-executive-order-ending-the-disparate-impact-fallacy-n4939236
– Disparate impact theory originated in a 1971 Supreme Court case, Griggs v. Duke Power Company. … There could be no disparate impact on blacks or other minorities.Disparate-impact theory preserved the hegemony of the civil rights … That's exactly what disparate-impact theory did 50 years ago.…