discriminatory
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The court records were made public this week by the ACLU, which is part of a coalition seeking to bar an “ongoing campaign of suspicionless and discriminatory detentive stops” in the Central District of California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The perceived unfairness of the PIX system and other alleged discriminatory trade practices has led the US to threaten a 25 percent tariff on some Brazilian exports.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
The Court held that the law bans “practices that are fair in form, but discriminatory in operation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
He added that education, rather than "punitive punishment", is the solution to children displaying discriminatory behaviour where it comes from a "lack of understanding and without intention to offend".
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
“New Negro” quickly came to mean an African American who refused to obey the discriminatory laws under which pre-World War I blacks were forced to live.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
