Student Name: Rachel Cahoon

Class: BMGT 201 O A DL

Date Submitted: January 20, 2019

Article Title: “Supreme Court blocks deposition of Commerce chief Ross over census
question”

Author: Ariane de Vogue

Source of Article: CNN Business

URL: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/22/politics/wilbur-ross-deposition-block-supreme-
court/index.html

Date of Article: October 23, 2018

Chapter 3, Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution, page 66, Appellate, or Reviewing,
Courts
Chapter 3, Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution, page 69, The United States
Supreme Court

1. The rule of four requires four of the Supreme Court Justices to approve of a writ of
certiorari and proceed to hear a case.
2. Appellate courts will uphold or defer to the trial court’s findings from the original trial.

The Coalition of states and the ACLU will be going to court in the future to try to stop a
question regarding a person’s citizenship to be included on the future U.S. 2020
Census. The plaintiffs claim including the question is unlawful and unconstitutional,
which is why the case is going to the Supreme Court. The plaintiff’s were trying to
obtain a deposition from Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross who has been a major
proponent for reinstating the question. The challengers and protestors, consisting of the
New York attorney general and the ACLU, say that including a question about
citizenship on the census will dissuade non-citizens from participating in the census.
They claim that it is a blatant act of discrimination to downplay the number of non-citizen
population. The supreme court decided to block the discovery and deposition of Ross,
which had previously been permitted to happen in a lower district and court of appeals.