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Alabama filed a federal lawsuit to force the U.S. Census Bureau to move up the release of 2020 census redistricting data and stop its plans for using a new way of keeping people's information in the data confidential.
Updated June 30, 2021 at 2:22 PM ET
A three-judge court has rejected Alabama's request to force the U.S. Census Bureau to move up the release of 2020 census redistricting data. The federal judges have also allowed the bureau to continue plans for a new way of keeping people's census information confidential.
The ruling issued on Tuesday was expected to be appealed directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. But in an email to NPR on Wednesday, Joy Patterson, a spokesperson for the Alabama state attorney general's office, said: "At the moment, Alabama and the other plaintiffs do not intend to appeal the district court's order."