April 23, 2021
A San Jose federal judge has agreed to dismiss hotly contested litigation over the thoroughness of data collection for the 2020 Census, following an agreement between a coalition of civic organizations and the Biden administration.
January 29, 2021
A magistrate judge panel isn't hiding its frustration with the U.S. Census Bureau, saying the agency failed to provide a "shred of evidence" to support claims that it complied with a discovery order in a suit challenging the bureau's shortened 2020 census timeline.
January 06, 2021
Civil rights groups, tribes and jurisdictions are seeking sanctions in a heated discovery battle with the U.S. Census Bureau as the plaintiffs continue to challenge the agency's shortened 2020 census timeline in federal court.
December 23, 2020
A California federal judge has denied the U.S. Census Bureau's bid to dismiss a new complaint against it by civil rights groups, indigenous tribes and municipalities over its attempts to hasten census data collection, ruling that the bureau's claims of achieving a timely 99% completion rate are "meritless."
December 11, 2020
A California federal judge on Thursday admonished the U.S. Census Bureau for providing "inadequate" data during discovery and ordered it to furnish more information by Monday — part of an expedited timeline sought by Indigenous tribes, civil rights groups, municipalities and others in their case against the bureau's own move to shorten the census's data collection period.
December 10, 2020
The Navajo Nation, the Gila River Indian Community and others accused the U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday of "sabotaging" an eight-week discovery period in a suit that challenges an August census plan to shorten data collection deadlines.
November 16, 2020
U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh on Friday batted away calls from the Census Bureau to end a suit over its shifting timeline for the 2020 population count, saying the government's arguments had already failed in two courts.
November 12, 2020
The U.S. Census Bureau has urged a California federal judge to toss a suit contesting the agency's accelerated plan to complete the national count, saying claims the bureau's bid to meet deadlines will lead to an inaccurate count rely on "the same flawed logic" that led the U.S. Supreme Court to stay an earlier ruling.
October 02, 2020
A California federal court has ordered the U.S. Census Bureau to move back its data collection deadline for the 2020 census from Monday to the end of October, finding the agency repeatedly flouted a judge's order as it attempted to report data to the president by Dec. 31.
October 01, 2020
The U.S. Census Bureau told a California federal court Thursday that its plan to end its 2020 census count by Monday to try to report data to the president by Dec. 31 doesn't violate an injunction against the agency pursuing that deadline.