The Oyez Project: Judicial Power Issues - Adversary Parties Arguments http://www.oyez.org/issues/judicial-power/adversary-parties/ U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments, presented by The Oyez Project (www.oyez.org) en-us http://www.oyez.org/images/oyezfeed.jpg U.S. Supreme Court Audio Recordings, presented by The Oyez Project (www.oyez.org) Primate Protection League v. Tulane Ed. Fund - Oral Argument Wed, 20 Mar 1991 12:00:00 -0500 No details yet. No details yet. 90-89_19910320-argument http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1990/1990_90_89/argument/ supreme, court, oyez, rehnquist Utah v. Evans - Oral Argument Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:00:00 -0500 <p>In conducting the 2000 census, the Census Bureau used "hot-deck imputation" to fill in certain gaps in its information and resolved certain conflicts in the data. Under this methodology, the Bureau imputes the relevant information by inferring that the address or unit about which it is uncertain has the same population characteristics as those of its geographically closest neighbor of the same type. Hot-deck Imputation increased North Carolina's population by 0.4% while increasing Utah's population by only 0.2% such that North Carolina will receive one more Representative and Utah one less than if the Bureau had simply filled relevant informational gaps by counting the related number of individuals as zero. Utah brought suit against the officials charged with conducting the census, claiming that the Bureau's use of hot-deck imputation violates 13 USC section 195, which prohibits use of "the statistical method known as 'sampling,'" and is inconsistent with Article 1, section 2, clause 3 of the Constitution, which states that an "actual Enumeration be made." Utah sought an injunction compelling a change of the official census results. The District Court found for the Bureau.</p> <p>Does the Census Bureau's use of "hot-deck imputation," in the 2000 census, violate the statutory provision forbidding use of the statistical method known as sampling? Is this methodology inconsistent with the Constitution's statement that an "actual Enumeration be made?</p> 01-714_20020327-argument http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2001/2001_01_714/argument/ supreme, court, oyez, rehnquist