Trump Executive Order Rolls Back Disparate-Impact Enforcement
By EsqSocial Corporation 29/04/25
President Trump has issued an executive order aimed at significantly reducing the use of disparate-impact analysis by federal agencies when enforcing anti-discrimination laws. Titled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy,” the order declares that disparate-impact liability creates a near insurmountable presumption of unlawful discrimination whenever differences in outcomes appear among races, sexes or other protected groups, even absent any discriminatory policy, practice or...
By: Fox Rothschild LLP