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Census
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SDNY Blog
Judge Furman Sanctions DOJ in Census Citizenship Question Case
In an opinion today, Judge Furman granted a motion for sanctions against the Department of Justice for failing to review and produce hundreds of relevant documents in the litigation over…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Census Bureau will seek a four-month delay
The Census Bureau said Monday that it would ask Congress for a four-month delay in delivering the population data used to reapportion the House of Representatives and political districts nationwide.…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Covid-19 and Census Day 2020
Today (April 1) is Census Day. While not a deadline for responses, census day is a key reference date for the 2020 Census because, when you respond, you'll tell the…
Tristan’s Landlord-Tenant Law Blog
Landlords Are Allowed, and Even Required, To Provide Answers To A Census Taker About Their Tenants
With the census fast approaching, I have been getting many questions from clients as to whether or not they must provide census workers with information about their tenants. The short…
The Right Coast
Out for the count – America s census looks out of date in the age of big data | International | The Economist
Nordic countries have ditched the unwieldy undertaking altogether, turning to other sources of information. In Sweden each citizen is given a personnummer, an identity number linked to government data on…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Fourth Circuit willing to review challenge to Census Bureau’s inadequate preparations
The Fourth Circuit revived a lawsuit alleging the U.S. Census Bureau’s inadequate preparations for the upcoming 2020 census will lead to an undercount of minority populations.The three-judge panel found in…
Religion Clause
British Court Says Sikh Challenge To Census Proposal Is Premature
In Gill, R (on the application of) v UK Statistics Authority, (EWHC, Dec. 12, 2019), a High Court judge in England dismissed as premature a challenge to a proposal by the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Reading from the Harvard Law Review
The Supreme Court issue of the Harvard Law Review is out. There are notes on two cases that might be of special interest to ImmigrationProf readers.Department of Commerce v. New…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Most state DMVs have not turned over driver records to Census Bureau, despite requests
AP reports: As of Wednesday, the vast majority of state motor vehicle agencies had not agreed to share their records with the bureau, according to an Associated Press survey of…
The Right Coast
How John Roberts killed the census citizenship question – CNNPolitics
Washington (CNN)Chief Justice John Roberts cast the deciding vote against President Donald Trump's attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, but only after changing his position behind…