Congress codified the disparate impact theory and set forth the burden of proof in disparate impact cases in the 1991 amendments to the Civil Rights Act, which the Senate passed by a bipartisan 93 ...

Companies must weigh the risks and benefits of using a holding company to manage their intellectual property (IP) portfolio, ...

The government under President Donald Trump is bending the arc of US history in a new direction, away from the civil rights ...

The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making ...

Civil Rights Act aimed to prevent workplace discrimination. Trump says it promotes bias and will stop enforcing it.

The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its ...

The Trump administration has shifted staff and undertaken a series of policy changes at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights ...

A group of seven Democratic senators are questioning the Department of Justice (DOJ) over its shake-up to its Civil Rights ...

Seven Democratic senators are asking the U.S. Justice Department for information about changes to its civil rights division ...

The DOJ's civil rights division, founded after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, initially focused on protecting the voting rights of Black Americans. But Congress later expanded its ...

By Devlin Barrett Reporting from Washington Hundreds of lawyers and other staff members are leaving the Justice Department’s civil rights division, as veterans of the office say they have been ...

The Equality Act has also garnered support from businesses and over 650 organizations, including civil rights, education, health care, and faith-based groups. The Equality Act was reintroduced today ...