Legal Commentary

DOMA and the Census
Last Friday, Gary Gates of UCLA?s Williams Institute had an interesting op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times. In the piece, he makes an argument for why the Census Bureau should not alter the responses of married same-sex couples to the 2010 census by reporting them as “unmarried” partners...

Online Conspiracy Theorists Latch Onto Census GPS Units
The hanging death of a Kentucky census worker is likely to raise tensions among counters in the 2010 census, who have already been the focus of emotionally charged online rhetoric this year because they use GPS...

New GAO Reports: Census Bureau Testing, 2010 Census, Influenza Pandemic
Information Technology: Census Bureau Needs to Strengthen Testing of 2010 Decennial Systems, GAO-09-413T, March 05, 2009 2010 Census: Fundamental Building...

Census to Count Same-Sex Marriages
The U.S. Census Bureau will count and report same-sex couples for the first time during the upcoming census. Same-sex marriages reported during the 1990 census were counted as married, heterosexual couples...

Census Bureau Projects U.S. Population of 308.4 Million on New Year's Day
News release: "On the eve of the 2010 Census, as the Census Bureau prepares to conduct an actual count of...

Same-sex unions a challenge for Census
USA Today: "The Census Bureau faces logistical challenges next year in classifying legally married same-sex couples as married. The agency has said that the 2010 Census will report the number of married same-sex couples for the first time, a decision that thrills gay-rights advocates...