Many employers find the practice helpfully predictive, but the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is stepping up pressure against it. [WSJ Law Blog, Hyman]
Many employers find the practice helpfully predictive, but the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is stepping up pressure against it. [WSJ Law Blog, Hyman]
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Around the web, October 29…
After the leak of this Larry Tribe letter, we perhaps know who bad-mouthed Sonia Sotomayor to Jeff Rosen. The bad-mouthing of Justices Breyer and Kennedy (and smear of Diane Wood) are also in there. Don’t miss the last-paragraph flattery. Above……
Does anyone know what other things one’s credit score is used for, unrelated to things financial (i.e. Loans, etc. )? I have heard that the credit score is used by auto insurance companies for the purpose of whether or not to insure drivers; since it is mandatory to have insurance in order to drive in most if not all states, how “fair” is that?
Interesting how racial generalizations are DENIED when they work to non-whites’ disadvantage, but ASSERTED when they work to non-whites’ advantage. I.E., “You can’t generalize and say that blacks and Hispanics have lower credit” vs. “Blacks and Hispanics have lower credit, and therefore, you can’t use credit scores to discriminate against them.”