May 04, 2023
Two Black job applicants' push to revive their race discrimination case over a technology firm's policy against hiring felons ran into tough questions Thursday from a Second Circuit judge who batted down their claims in a prior appeal.
February 23, 2021
A fractured Second Circuit declined Tuesday to review a panel's decision nixing a hiring bias suit brought by two African American men with felony convictions, detailing a chasm among the court's judges over the interplay between systemic racism and employment discrimination suits.
October 16, 2020
The Second Circuit's ruling that national criminal justice statistics are insufficient to support claims of a company's discrimination against applicants with felony convictions will disproportionately harm workers of color, a collection of public interest groups and criminologists supporting rehearing the case told the appeals court.
October 07, 2020
Two Black men denied jobs because of prior felony convictions asked the Second Circuit to reconsider its split decision affirming a technology company's win on discriminatory hiring allegations, arguing that the pleading standard applied in the decision ignored the racial discrimination inherent to the U.S. criminal justice system.
September 21, 2020
A split Second Circuit panel on Monday rejected discriminatory hiring allegations brought by a pair of African American men denied jobs because of past felony convictions, finding that the men can't rely on national statistics showing that Black individuals are more likely to be arrested and incarcerated than white applicants.