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Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 2 P33 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 308 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS census. However one state did file suit in an attempt to throw out census figures derived from a method the state considered impermissible sampling. Utah noting that its population grew by 30 percent in ten years was disappointed it did not gain another seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. In reviewing the census data it noted that the Census Bureau had relied on a statistical method called imputation to estimate the number of members of a household that census takers could not contact after repeated efforts. Utah discovered that if it could have these imputed numbers removed from the population count it would gain a House seat that had been awarded to North Carolina. A three-judge panel heard Utah s lawsuit but dismissed it at the urging of the Commerce Department. The panel ruled that the imputation method was not impermissible under the 1999 Supreme Court decision and that it did not violate the Constitution s census clause. The Supreme Court in Utah v. Evans 536 U.S. 452 122 S. Ct. 2191 153 L.Ed.2d 453 2002 upheld the lower court ruling. The Court in a 5-4 decision dismissed Utah s contention that actual enumeration under the census clause was intended as a description of the only methodology for counting U.S. citizens. As for the imputation method the Court saw it as different from sampling sampling seeks to extrapolate the features of a large population from a small one but the Bureau s imputation process sought simply to fill in missing data as part of an effort to count individuals one by one. Congress appropriated 1 billion for the 2010 census. The Census Bureau has established at its website http www.census.gov a portal for accessing all 2000 census data. The site provides researchers with tables of data while also providing the public with breakdowns of data in easily searchable formats. FURTHER READINGS Anderson Margo J. 1990. The American Census A Social History. New Haven Conn. Yale Univ. Press. Katz Bruce .
