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Enjoining Truncated Data Collection for the 2020 Census

Robert Timothy Reagan
September 4, 2023

National Urban League v. Ross (Lucy H. Koh, N.D. Cal. 5:20-cv-5799)
An August 2020 federal complaint filed in the Northern District of California challenged a recent decision to cut short data collection for the 2020 census. A temporary restraining order issued eighteen days later enjoined the truncated data-collection schedule. An-other nineteen days later, the district court issued a preliminary injunction, but nineteen days after that, the Supreme Court stayed the injunction. Following an amended complaint and a January 2021 change in administration, the case was resolved by settlement.
Subject: District lines. Topics: Malapportionment; Covid-19; case assignment.

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