WE LIVE IN CRAZY TIMES:  Major law firms counsel their clients to keep disparate impact liability in mind when they make decisions about how to handle layoffs (as they should given that the law … or maybe I should say “the law” … requires it).  Meanwhile Minneapolis Schools adopt a policy of outright race discrimination against white teachers in layoffs.

(As always, if you haven’t done so already,  I urge you to read Title VII Disparate Impact Liability Makes Everything Presumptively Illegal, which is a primer on this pernicious policy.)