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On November 3, 2023, the U.S. Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) issued a final analytic framework for assessing financial stability risks (the Framework) and final interpretive guidance regarding FSOC’s procedures for designating nonbank financial companies as systemically important (the Guidance, and together with the Framework, the Final Guidance).1 Companies designated as systemically important become subject […]
A Black woman passed over for a supervisory position in her Michigan post office is entitled to a race bias trial, because a jury could find she was “significantly more qualified” than the White woman who got the job. The ruling Monday by a divided US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit addresses when […]
A Black woman can pursue her race discrimination lawsuit over being passed over for a principal position at a Louisiana elementary school in favor of a White man with no administrative experience, the Fifth Circuit said Thursday. Esther Watson provided evidence from which a jury could decide that she was clearly more qualified than Scott […]
The US Army will face a Black Haitian civilian worker’s racial and retaliatory harassment claims, after the Fourth Circuit clarified that the same standard to show retaliation applies to private and federal workers. Alleged comments “summoning an odious trope about African American speech patterns,” connecting the abuses of slavery to athletic abilities, and otherwise reflecting […]
As hate crime incidents rise nationwide, Illinois has revived a commission focused on addressing them here at home. According to the FBI’s latest annual report, there were 8,263 hate crime incidents in the U.S. in 2020. That’s up from 7,314 in 2019 when the country experienced the highest number of hate crimes since 2008. Now […]
April 25, 2022, 4:39 PM Didn’t need to allege prima facie case of race discrimination Supervisor’s comment closes time gap on retaliation claim The state of Maryland must face a Black man’s claims that he was fired as the director of a residential education program for at-risk adolescents because of his race and an internal […]
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