But Judith L. Lichtman, a senior adviser at the National Partnership for Women and Families, said that penalties in wellness programs could have "an unjustified disparate impact" in violation of civil rights laws.
The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty argues that "homelessness and the lack of affordable housing in the United States of America have a disparate racial impact, in violation of the United States' obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination".
The report also states that the port development has caused "massive ecological changes with adverse impacts", some in violation of environmental conditions.
For example, it may very well be that any possible process that alters the position of the moon by altering the position of some other massive object will have an independent impact on the tides in violation of condition (M2) for an intervention.
The environmental impact report was found in violation of state laws because it didn't consider alternative sites or whether using money from Pacific City to fund the project would have a negative effect on the city's ability to provide open space, according to court documents.
To be clear, this lawsuit is not alleging that Morgan Stanley or its employees held racial hostility to the black community, but that the policies and practices of the investment bank had a manifest racial impact in clear violation of the 1988 amendments to the Fair Housing Act.
If a quantum physicist today could predict the future impact of his work, he would stand in violation of the long and honourable tradition of his discipline.
Crackdowns on landlords whose buildings are in violation of city codes are also having an impact, Mr. Hanratty said.
The Department of Justice's investigation of the Ferguson Police Department, released in 2015, proved, among other violations, that FPD repeatedly engages in unconstitutional stops and arrests in violation of the Fourth Amendment, and that this misconduct "disproportionately impacts African-Americans".
Systematically, these projects are built in violation of laws and without adequate planning or evaluation of impacts on the environment and human rights.
The lawsuit focuses on issues of state and local law – whether the deal was negotiated in secret in violation of port requirements, whether it is inconsistent with the Shoreline Management Act, and whether there will be local air quality impacts that were not analyzed in violation of the Washington Environmental Policy Act – and not on climate change, per se.
