Sentences with phrase «pattern of discrimination»

Civil rights groups and real estate professionals said Faroul's experience follows a familiar pattern of discrimination by banks and mortgage lenders that has kept people of color from building wealth.

The jury, in a verdict delivered on Friday, also found DeRaffele engaged in a pattern of discrimination against prospective tenants based on their familial status.

However, the Housing Group found a pattern of discrimination by the Landlord and so filed a lawsuit with the Tenant against the Landlord in 2003, alleging discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, and disability in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act («Act»).

Based on the test results, the Government filed a lawsuit alleging violations of the federal Fair Housing Act («Act»), based on a pattern of discrimination.

However, a claim by an individual or small group may fall within this priority if it raises a policy, practice or pattern of discrimination.

DOJ entrusted Allan to represent the United States in some of its most high profile cases including a large class action challenging the New York City Fire Department's (FDNY) pattern of discrimination against Black and Hispanic applicants - which settled for about $ 100 million - and the first - ever employment discrimination lawsuit that DOJ filed to protect the rights of a transgender individual.

The seven - member panel concluded that the disappearances and murders are part of a larger pattern of discrimination.

[Footnote 24] Nor is the Amendment ineffective simply because the particular pattern of discrimination, which the State has enforced, was defined initially by the terms of a private agreement.

Because student loan ratingors have had the right of bankruptcy denied them there exists a practice and pattern of discrimination.

Now academic researchers say they have found a similar pattern of discrimination involving popular ride hailing apps.

«There has been a widespread pattern of discrimination against educators who would challenge evolution in the classroom,» Casey Luskin, a policy analyst for the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute, in Seattle, Washington, told ScienceInsider.

Success» opponents and their supporters in the media are trying to use this mistake as proof of a pattern of discrimination against special - needs kids and portray Success Academy specifically as the embodiment of institutionalized, deliberate educational neglect.

In the last two years, however, lawyers on his staff took action against an adoption agency that refused to work with same - sex couples and a major retail chain that showed a pattern of discrimination against transgender job applicants.

When their experience confirmed to them a pattern of discrimination, they started a hashtag, #HellenistWidowsMatter to explain that they, too, were important.

Researchers say the Williams Institute findings on workplace discrimination are consistent with other 2010 and 2011 studies, which show a continuing pattern of discrimination against lesbian, gay, and bisexual employees.

But it is imperative that the ED and DOJ show more than differential punishment rates by race to establish some latent patterns of discrimination in their studies.

This policy was in place for 11 years with no complaint or lawsuit — in fact it was only after the article came out in the Houston Chronicle that OCR stepped in to investigate, demonstrating the futility of relying on parents and local authorities who are ill equipped to address individual complaints, much less identify and address larger patterns of discrimination.

This includes restoring rules allowing Office for Civil Rights investigators to look at years of past complaints against districts to determine patterns of discrimination, hiring more investigators to look into patterns of disparate impact, and even requiring states such as Maryland to implement stronger rules against overuse of harsh discipline.

Using the act as the basis of potential enforcement, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Department of Justice are probing potential patterns of discrimination, not individual cases.

Using the ECOA as the basis of potential enforcement, the CFPB and Dept. of Justice, employing what is called disparate impact, are looking at potential patterns of discrimination, not individual cases in their enforcement actions.

In particular, there is an opportunity to distill the data, if it is released to researchers in an anonymous manner, to reveal any patterns of discrimination or bias which may emerge.

Particularly damaging are the repeated patterns of discrimination entrenched in the structure of society.

West Coast LEAF's mission is to achieve equality by changing historic patterns of discrimination against women through BC - based equality rights litigation, law reform and public legal education.

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This year, a federal court found the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department in Arizona, in the guise of assisting federal immigration enforcement, had engaged in a pattern and practice of discrimination.

«This pattern or practice of discrimination denies job opportunities to individuals who are searching for and interested in jobs, reduces the number of older workers who apply for jobs with the offending employers and employment agencies, and depresses the number of older workers who are hired,» the complaint reads.

Although we do not disprove the possibility of discrimination by attorneys, our data show that selection effects are potentially as important in explaining patterns in Chapter 13 cases.»

Yet despite the churches» traditional teaching on the subject, the demand to reject all forms of discrimination seems likely to lead to growing acceptance of different lifestyles and patterns of relationship, although this is already a divisive matter between conservative and more liberal Christians.

An investigation by the Department of Justice has found that the Ferguson police department engaged in a years - long pattern of racial discrimination against members of the black community, who of...

There do exist, on many levels, patterns of interaction that give rise to structures, that provide the basis for well - founded discriminations of unity.

Eternal objects inform actual occasions with hierarchic patterns, included and excluded in every variety of discrimination.

On the other hand, young people are more apt than their elders to break through the patterns of racial discrimination if there are democratic and Christian influences upon their thinking and friendly group contacts are possible with those of another race.

When we are given Christian insight the whole pattern of racial discrimination is seen as an unutterable offence against God, to be endured no longer, so that the very stones cry out.

If a school official in the state of New York is aware of a pattern of racial or religious discrimination or harassment that state official is under an affirmative duty to notify the State Education Department and the police, or that state official is no longer a state official, because that's not who we are and that's not how we perform.

In the North, African - American populations are largely confined to large urban areas and their less affluent first ring suburbs, and segregated neighborhoods that are a legacy of pre-Civil Rights era patterns of housing discrimination remain the norm in older parts of non-Southern cities, (although newer suburbs tend to be considerably more integrated than older neighborhoods outside the South).

ALBANY — The Buffalo woman who recently told her story of being sexually harassed by Sam Hoyt, a former state lawmaker and top economic adviser to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has filed a federal lawsuit against Hoyt for engaging in a «pattern of committing sexual harassment, assault, discrimination and retaliation» against her.

Ioanna Tzoulaki, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London, says such analyses could be useful if fat in the face can be correlated with patterns of disease, but she worries about discrimination.

Similarly, Cheryan said, gender discrimination in hiring and other opportunities was not able to explain current patterns of variability.

As a result, they observed patterns between young men and young women that reveal that there is a feminine and a masculine way of behaving on the Internet and that there are different ways of expressing discrimination on social networks sites.

He highlights the total pattern of segregation and discrimination.

Recently, several prominent national education organizations (including the NEA, AERA, AFT, and NCTE) have called for addressing equity in schools and society, specifically recommending that we need to highlight the «systemic patterns of inequity — racism and educational injustice — that impacts our students,» and that educators and school leaders «receive the tools, training, and support they need to build curricula with substantive exploration of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.»

provided with training which addresses the social patterns of harassment, bullying and discrimination, including but not limited to those acts based on a person's actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender, and sex;

Every administration has a different philosophy that governs the work of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR).28 Education Secretary DeVos» actions show a clear deprioritization of the office: Under her leadership, the Education Department announced that the OCR will not actively investigate patterns of discriminatory practices, 29 rolled back guidance to prevent discrimination against transgender students, 30 and refused to commit to continue the Civil Rights Data Collection.31

The workshop addresses the patterns of harassment, bullying and discrimination, marginalizing of students as well as other required topics.

The government cited Credit State Bank in North Carolina for an alleged pattern of lending discrimination based on marital status, he says.

(5) investigate allegations, made in writing and under oath or affirmation, that citizens of the United States are unlawfully being accorded or denied the right to vote, or to have their votes properly counted, in any election of presidential electors, Members of the United States Senate, or of the House of Representatives, as a result of any patterns or practice of fraud or discrimination in the conduct of such election; and

(d) Nothing in this section shall preclude the Director of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights from initiating -LSB-[Page 150]-RSB- an investigation when it appears that the investigation of the complaint may reveal a pattern or practice of discrimination or noncompliance with the requirements of this subpart in the employment practices of a grantee or other covered organization.

«The same patterns of price discrimination we see in lender fees are also present in title insurance and settlement fees.

We aim to raise our target groups» awareness of patterns of thought and behaviour that underlie racism and discrimination, and encourage them to make an active contribution to the promotion and maintenance of an open, pluralist, democratic society.

West Coast LEAF's mission is to achieve equality by changing historic patterns of systemic discrimination against women, through BC - based equality rights litigation, law reform and public legal education.

Second, the Court's analysis of discrimination is extremely narrow: the broader social patterns of scientific knowledge and health policies are excluded from the inquiry.