Sentence examples for a discriminatory impact from inspiring English sources

Because gay couples cannot legally marry, the policy has a discriminatory impact on them, he said.

Federal regulations barring actions that have a discriminatory impact, regardless of intent, could not provide a basis for private lawsuits, he said.

Justice DeGrasse agreed, saying that the state's system of financing schools is unconstitutional, does have a discriminatory impact and has to be revised.

Preferences (as opposed to requirements) are allowed for local residents, but not to the extent that they have a discriminatory impact on minority groups.

This followed a similar decision by the notoriously conservative fifth circuit court of appeals that found Texas's stringent voter identification law had a discriminatory impact that breaches US voting rights law.The states could appeal the rulings to the supreme court.

While it is clear that Title VI bars intentional discrimination, the law is unsettled on whether Congress intended to authorize private lawsuits against agencies for policies that have a discriminatory impact regardless of intent.

The language of Title VII clearly says that an unlawful employment practice occurs every time an employer uses a process that has a racially discriminatory impact — not when the process is first announced.

But, laws and policies that ban religious garb at work or in school have a disproportionate, discriminatory impact on women and girls.

Other factors known to influence dietary behavior including socio-economic factors, stress and organizational factors (increased work demands, low skills motivation, overtime employment) were not analyzed in our study but in our setting, the population was highly homogeneous and most of these factors are not anticipated to have a significant discriminatory impact.

"This practice has an unlawful discriminatory impact because of race and is neither job-related nor justified by business necessity," the commission said.

Reading the plaintiffs' submissions, one also doesn't get a strong sense of the discriminatory impact of the laws on the ALP and its affiliated trade unions.