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This bill, titled the "Justice for All Act of 2025," is a comprehensive civil rights legislation that aims to clarify and expand protections against discrimination across multiple federal laws. The bill addresses several key areas, including restoring and strengthening disparate impact claims in civil rights statutes, prohibiting law enforcement profiling, expanding definitions of protected characteristics (such as sex, race, and national origin), and limiting the use of arbitration in civil rights, employment, and consumer disputes. Specifically, the bill reinstates the ability of individuals to bring legal action when policies or practices have a discriminatory effect, even if there is no explicit intent to discriminate, by amending several landmark civil rights laws including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Education Amendments of 1972, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975. The legislation responds to Supreme Court decisions that the bill argues have undermined civil rights protections, such as the Alexander v. Sandoval case, by explicitly allowing private rights of action for disparate impact claims. Additionally, the bill broadens definitions of discrimination to include protection based on sexual orientation, gender identity, hair texture, and other historically marginalized characteristics, and removes certain legal defenses that have previously limited the ability of individuals to seek remedies for discriminatory practices.

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