Government Seeks Stay, Consolidation Of Petition Over Census Deposition Dispute

Mealey's (January 25, 2019, 8:25 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite an existing briefing stay, the federal government on Jan. 22 filed a brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to defer ruling on a motion to dismiss as improvidently granted a petition for certiorari in a dispute over a trial court’s ability to order the deposition of the secretary of Commerce in a lawsuit about a proposed census citizenship question (In re U.S. Department of Commerce, No. 18-557, U.S. Sup.)....