By focusing solely on ‘intentional discrimination,’ the Justice Department risks allowing more subtle forms of bias to ...

Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced Tuesday that the Division on Civil Rights has formally adopted sweeping new rules defining and ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of “race, color, or national origin.” The Justice Department and the courts have historically interpreted the law as a ban on ...

The U.S. civil rights agency responsible for enforcing worker rights will stop investigating complaints about company policies that don’t explicitly discriminate but may disproportionately harm ...

Recent changes limit employment discrimination claims, especially for disparate impact, with the Supreme Court possibly challenging its constitutionality. The EEOC will focus only on direct ...

Federal authorities moved Friday to drop a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Sheetz convenience store chain, part of a broader effort by President Donald Trump's administration to halt the use ...

Legal expert Hans von Spakovsky explains what will happen because the Justice Department ended disparate impact regulations.

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump recently ordered federal agencies not to enforce laws that prohibit policies and practices with discriminatory impacts that are often unintended. Curbing so-called ...

You're correct if you understand this to put incredible power into the hands of those who create the categories and who determine that "desired proportional representation." Now, I'm not a lawyer, but ...

Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, arrives to testify in a House Financial Services Committee hearing. (Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) By signing up, ...