The Department of Justice did not indicate to community and state leaders if it would investigate the Memphis Police Department to see if the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols in early January was part ...

Section 707 of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act allows the EEOC to file suit against an employer for a "pattern or practice" of discrimination. In the 1970s, the Supreme Court held that the ...

The Justice Department has opened a civil pattern or practice investigation into the City of Memphis and the Memphis Police Department (MPD). The investigation will seek to determine whether there are ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The US Department of Justice has opened a statewide civil “pattern-or-practice” investigation into Louisiana State Police. “Based on an extensive review of publicly available ...

Over the past few years, the number of employer investigations—and perhaps more noteworthy, the amount of the penalties assessed—by the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair ...

The result, a 105-page document released May 26 known as a consent decree, spells out new use-of-force guidelines and procedures to investigate police misconduct, and calls for training to counter ...