18

Dec

Case Updates, NEWSapportionment, census, census 2020, lpscotus, national, scotus, U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Supreme Court Decides Not to Decide Illegal Immigrant Apportionment Case

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that the White House request to the Census Bureau to modify the population count to exclude undocumented immigrants was not ripe. The per…

01

Dec

Monthly Redistricting Update, NEWSapportionment, census, census 2020, U.S. Census Bureau

Monthly Redistricting Update: November 2020

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The U.S. Census Bureau was the main focus for redistricting news in November and it did not disappoint. The Bureau casually and cryptically announced an unspecified delay in its post-processing…

28

Nov

DATA and TECHNOLOGY, NEWScensus, census 2020, dataindepth, differential privacy, disclosure avoidance, national, U.S. Census Bureau

(Privacy) Invariants Set for 2020 Census Data Products

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The U.S. Census Bureau has determined the specific files within the redistricting data release that will not be altered for privacy purposes. Or in other words, which files will have…

20

Nov

DATA and TECHNOLOGY, NEWS, Redistricting Prepcensus, census 2020, dataindepth, national, U.S. Census Bureau

Census Bureau Director Says “Processing Anomalies” will Delay Census Data Release Schedule

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On November 19th the Director of the U.S. Census Bureau released a short statement acknowledging "certain processing anomalies" in the decennial census data collected earlier this year. While the director…

01

Nov

Monthly Redistricting Update, NEWScensus, census 2020, Monthly Updates, U.S. Census Bureau

Monthly Redistricting Update: October 2020

By Editor

Its November 1st and here is what happened on the redistricting front in October. The big news is still the litigation surrounding census operations and how the data will be…

26

Oct

Case Updates, Census Law, LATEST, LAW, NEWS, Redistricting, Redistricting Litigationapportionment, census, census 2020, legal, U.S. Census Bureau

CA Federal Court Panel Invalidates Presidential Order to Exclude “Illegal Aliens” from Apportionment Count

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On Thursday (Oct. 22) a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (San Jose Division) issued a final order and opinion invalidating the president's…

19

Oct

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Supreme Court Schedules November Oral Argument in Undocumented Immigrant Apportionment Case

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On Friday, the Supreme Court announced it would expedite an appeal by the Trump administration after a lower district court halted the administration’s plan to exclude people who are in…

14

Oct

Case Updates, LATEST, LAW, NEWS, Redistricting Litigationcensus, census 2020, lpscotus, U.S. Census Bureau

Supreme Court Stays Lower Court Restraining Order, Allows Census Counting to End Early

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On Sept. 24th the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction that enjoined the U.S. Census Bureau from ending its counting operations on September…

05

Oct

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Federal Judge Reprimands Census Bureau for Violating its Restraining Order

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On Sept. 24th the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction that enjoins the U.S. Census Bureau from ending its counting operations on September…