Disparate Impact and Integration: With TDHCA v. Inclusive Communities the Supreme Court Retains an Uneasy Status Quo

Disparate Impact and Integration: With TDCA v. Inclusive Communities the Supreme Court Retains an Uneasy Status Quo

The Power of the Supreme Court’s Decision in the Fair Housing Act Case, TDHCA v. ICP

(Please turn to page 18) Florence Wagman Roisman ([email protected]), a former PRRAC Board member, is the William F. Harvey Professor of Law and a Chancellor’s Professor at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis. She also is a member of the Board of Directors of the Inclusive Communities Project. This essay expresses her personal views. We may hope that the Supreme...

Scaling the Wall and Running the Mile: the Role of Physical-selection Procedures in the Disparate Impact Narrative

Since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Dothard v. Rawlinson in 1977, gender-based disparate impact litigation has been limited in scope, but there remains room for growth. This Comment focuses on one particularly successful subset of gender-based disparate impact cases, physical-selection procedures. An examination of these decisions shows that plaintiffs have faced an uphill battle in ...

Pregnancy Discrimination in the Wake of Young v. Ups

Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 133 I. Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 ..................................................................................................... 136 A. Pregnancy Discrimination Pre-PDA .....................................................

The Diversity-Validity Dilemma: Implications from the Ricci v. DeStefano U.S. Supreme Court Case

One of the most critical problems that hospitality firms face in selecting employees is that the use of cognitive ability tests and other valid predictors of job performance lead to subgroup differences between majority and minority group members. The recent Ricci v. DeStefano U.S. Supreme Court case provides new implications for the adverse diversity-validity dilemma. This paper seeks to bridg...