States, Nonprofits Ask High Court To Dismiss Census Deposition Case As Moot

Mealey's (January 18, 2019, 3:17 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Simultaneous with the filing of their respondent briefs, the states and nonprofit organizations suing the federal government over a proposed citizenship question on the upcoming census jointly filed a motion in the U.S. Supreme Court Jan. 17, seeking dismissal of the government’s granted petition for certiorari over the ordered deposition of the secretary of Commerce, arguing that a trial court’s recent ruling disposing of that order renders the matter moot (In re U.S. Department of Commerce, No. 18-557, U.S. Sup.)....