A recent executive order by President Donald Trump has sparked much debate on the role of anti-discrimination laws, the treatment of protected classes and the need for meritocracy. The order ...

Legal experts remind business leaders that it is is still illegal for most employers to discriminate against employees because of their transgender status. The Trump Administration’s campaign against ...

Adam Leitman Bailey and Brandon Zlotnick discuss how New York State and City laws prohibit housing discrimination based on lawful sources of income, including government subsidies like Section 8 ...

The law "draws no distinctions between majority-group plaintiffs and minority-group plaintiffs," said Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who wrote the opinion. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) The ...

The EEOC has been stepping up its enforcement of pregnancy discrimination in the workplace. The private plaintiff's bar appears to be following the EEOC's lead on pregnancy discrimination suits. The ...

An examination of religious discrimination and accommodation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including federal prohibitions on discrimination, harassment, and retaliation targeting ...

The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) has rewritten a decades-old provision of civil rights law that allows for statistical disparities to be used as proof of discrimination. The DOJ’s decision to ...

In California, the pay gap is more than just a gender issue. Latinas earn an estimated 44 cents per dollar that a white man earns, while Black women earn just 58 cents, according to recent data from ...

The justices rejected as outdated and mistaken the view that “members of a majority group” must show more evidence of discrimination before they can sue and win. Although the case did not directly ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the nation's anti-discrimination laws apply equally to all employees, regardless of whether those complaining of bias are white or Black, gay or straight. In a ...