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Discrimination is prejudicial treatment related to (or inappropriate consideration of) an individual's actual or perceived membership in a particular class, group or category, such as an individual's... more +

New Jersey Updates Discrimination Law: New Rules for AI Fairness

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 2/24/2025

The New Jersey AG and the Division on Civil Rights’ new guidance on algorithmic discrimination explains how AI tools might be used in ways that violate the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination. The law applies to employers...more

New Jersey Attorney General: NJ’s Law Against Discrimination (LAD) Applies to Automated Decision-Making Tools

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/13/2025

This month, the New Jersey Attorney General’s office (NJAG) added to nationwide efforts to regulate, or at least clarify the application of existing law, in this case the NJ Law Against Discrimination, N.J.S.A. § 10:5-1 et...more

Third Circuit Rules That Employees Cannot Sue Employers for Discrimination Based on Marijuana Use

Saul Ewing LLP on 12/20/2024

On December 9, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that New Jersey’s Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act (“CREAMMA”) does not provide workers with a private...more

Third Circuit Affirms That New Jersey’s Cannabis Law Does Not Allow a Private Right of Action

Littler on 12/20/2024

On December 9, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld the New Jersey district court’s previous ruling that there is no private right of action under New Jersey’s Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement...more

New Jersey Proposal for New Rules Pertaining to Disparate Impact Discrimination

Troutman Pepper Locke on 6/13/2024

Q. Is there a new standard in New Jersey for disparate impact discrimination?...more

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