3rd Circ. Hints NJ Bias Law Standard No Longer Viable

By Carla Baranauckas ( October 27, 2025, 10:02 PM EDT) -- A Third Circuit panel appeared poised on Monday to reconsider the viability of the "background circumstances" test under New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination as it weighed a white former police officer's bid to revive his discrimination case through the lens of recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent in cases brought by majority-group plaintiffs....

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