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The Department of Housing and Urban Development is also pushing a new rule to codify disparate-impact analysis under the Fair Housing Act, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is making such lending enforcement a priority.
Squeezed in St. Paul 2012
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The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case in November on whether "disparate-impact analysis," which uses statistics to prove racial discrimination, could be used under the 1968 Fair Housing Act.
Squeezed in St. Paul 2012
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Your editorial incorrectly asserts that the purpose of HUD's proposed disparate-impact rule is to support racial loan quotas . . .
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This is a substantial weakening of the disparate-impact prong of Title VII.
Wonk Room 2009
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The disparate-impact approach encourages race-based decision-making, which is flatly at odds with the color-blind ideals of the civil-rights movement and the laws for which it fought.
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All the disparate-impact standard would do is prohibit specific policies or practices that serve no legitimate business purpose but which have the effect of discriminating against racial minorities and other protected classes.
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We filed an amicus brief making many of the same points—including the fact that the plain language of the FHA is inconsistent with the disparate-impact approach.
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Bringing the disparate-impact rule back to the mortgage business meets the Albert Einstein definition of insanity: performing the same experiment over and over again and expecting a different result.
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In a recent, much-publicized case involving the use of the disparate-impact concept in the labor market Ricci v.
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This is a substantial weakening of the disparate-impact prong of Title VII.
Wonk Room » Conservatives Attack Sotomayor For Not Having A Crystal Ball 2009
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