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On April 23, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order entitled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy,” directing federal agencies to effectively end the use of “disparate impact” liability in enforcing...more
Recently, there have been many questions regarding the collection of demographic data from employees and applicants by employers. Executive Order 14173 and other executive and agency actions by the Trump administration have...more
On Wednesday, April 23rd, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) titled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy,” which renounces disparate impact theories of discrimination, and signals a significant shift...more
On April 23, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” (“the EO”). The EO, by its own terms, seeks to “to eliminate the use of disparate-impact...more
On April 23, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order (Order) titled, “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy,” which prohibits federal agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...more
On April 23, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” (the “Executive Order”). The stated policy purpose of the Executive Order is to “eliminate the use of...more
On April 23, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order that is intended to limit employees' and applicants' abilities to use the disparate impact theory of liability to establish violations of the Civil Rights...more
On April 23, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14281, Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy (the “EO”), which aims to eliminate disparate impact as a theory of liability for unlawful...more
On April 23, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order (EO) titled Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy. This EO seeks to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in various contexts, arguing that...more
On April 23, 2025, President Trump issued his executive order, Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy (“EO”). The EO’s stated purpose is “to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the...more
The disparate impact theory has long been used to argue that an employer’s facially neutral policy has a detrimental effect on a protected class of individuals. An often cited example is the use of an arrest to reject an...more
An Executive Order signed by President Trump on April 23, titled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy,” directs federal agencies to shift their enforcement of civil rights laws away from disparate impact...more
In this week's episode of OK at Work, attorneys Sarah Sawyer and Russell Berger from Offit Kurman discuss a new executive order directing the EEOC not to pursue or investigate claims of disparate impact. They explain the...more
On April 23, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) titled, Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy, which addresses disparate impact discrimination....more
Key Takeaways - Disparate impact liability holds employers accountable for policies that appear neutral, but disproportionately harm a protected group, even without discriminatory intent....more
On April 23, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order (EO) 14281 titled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy.” The EO establishes the current administration’s policy broadly opposing the use of...more
We all know what “intentional” discrimination means. But what about facially non-discriminatory policies or practices that have a discriminatory effect? The U.S. Supreme Court invented a then-novel, and still somewhat...more
On April 23, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order entitled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy.” The Order announces the Administration’s intent to “seek to eliminate the use of...more
On April 23, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” (the “Executive Order”) seeking to “eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all...more
Last week, President Donald Trump issued an executive order (“EO”) titled Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy, which targets disparate impact as a theory of liability for discrimination cases....more
On April 23, 2025, The Trump administration issued Executive Order (“EO”) 14821, entitled, “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy,” aimed at eliminating disparate impact liability in all contexts, including...more
On April 23, 2025, the White House issued Executive Order 14281 entitled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” that announces the Administration’s policy “to eliminate the use of disparate impact liability in...more
In his administration’s continued quest to “encourage meritocracy and a colorblind society” and oppose “race-or sex-based favoritism,” President Trump issued a new executive order on April 23, 2025, titled “Restoring Equality...more
On April 23, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” executive order (the Disparate Impact EO) directing federal agencies to eliminate the use of disparate impact liability...more
On April 23, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order titled Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy (the Order). The Order calls for a government-wide rollback of disparate impact liability, a...more