The CFPB issued a final rule on April 22, 2026, eliminating disparate impact as a basis for ECOA enforcement. It ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump recently ordered federal agencies not to enforce laws that prohibit policies and practices with discriminatory impacts that are often unintended. Curbing so-called ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced Tuesday that the Justice Department will no longer have “disparate impact” regulations. “For decades, the Justice ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Wednesday directing federal agencies including the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to eliminate enforcement of disparate-impact liability ...

Measured in Trump time, it took them eons to get around to it, but the White House has finally taken the most important step it can to restore meritocracy to American society: eliminating ...

The latest target in Trump’s war on civil rights is a legal theory known as “disparate impact.” An April 23 executive order calls for eliminating the theory “to the maximum degree possible.” According ...

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