Sentences with phrase «of discriminatory intent»

The court also stated that a showing of discriminatory intent or effect was not required to prove a prima facie violation of the Act.

(Losen and I agree on this point: The 2014 letter did not require OCR to find evidence of discriminatory intent.

«Without further evidence of discriminatory intent, plaintiffs» claims would likely fail to survive a motion for summary judgment,» Senior U.S. District Judge Frederick Scullin wrote.

Not exact matches

The findings of racially motivated mapmaking satisfied Democrats and minority rights groups, who are now pushing a separate federal court in Texas to determine that the voter ID law was also crafted with discriminatory intent.

In its decision, the 9th Circuit cited a previous case establishing that «circumstantial evidence of intent, including... statements by decisionmakers, may be considered in evaluating whether a governmental action was motivated by a discriminatory purpose.»

In other words, your assertion that judges are not charged with the reading of minds is incorrect: there is well established precedent for considering discriminatory intent when determining whether an action is unconstitutionally discriminatory.

That 2014 civil rights guidance — jointly issued by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice — put schools on notice that they may be found in violation of federal civil rights laws if they enforce intentially discriminatory rules or if their policies lead to disproportionately higher rates of discipline for students in one racial group, even if those policies were written without discriminatory intent.

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When there is evidence of an actual improper intent for taking official action, the legal standard for striking it down as discriminatory or violating the establishment clause is much lower than when intent can only be inferred, and the administration's public statements showed improper intent.

At Workplace Blog, Paul Secunda reflects that Justice Ginsburg has the better of the argument, because individual pay decisions by themselves may not have obvious discriminatory intent until a pattern is established, which takes time.

While emphasizing the importance of freedom of expression in a subsection of the provision, the intent of the statute is to suppress a certain type of expression which represents a potential cause of the discriminatory practices the human rights legislation seeks to eliminate.