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Opinion of the Court
General of Florida, and George L. Waas, Assistant Attorney General, Deborah T. Poritz, Attorney General of New Jersey, and Michael S. Bokar, Senior Deputy Attorney General, Grant Woods, Attorney General of Arizona, and Robert Carey, First Assistant Attorney General, Tom Udall, Attorney General of New Mexico, and Christopher D. Coppin, Assistant Attorney General, Ada Treiger, John J. Copelan, Jr., Louise Renne, Burk E. Delventhal, Stan M. Sharoff, T. Michael Mather, John P. Frank, Avis M. Russell, Nicholas Rodriguez, Robert Cohen, Michael W. L. McCrory, George Rios, Burton H. Levin, Pastel Vann, Assistant Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia, and Kendrick Smith.†
Chief Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court.
In conducting the 1990 United States Census, the Secretary of Commerce decided not to use a particular statistical adjustment that had been designed to correct an undercount in the initial enumeration. The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the Secretary's decision was subject to heightened scrutiny because of its effect on the right of individual respondents to have their vote counted equally. We hold that the Secretary's decision was not subject to heightened scrutiny, and that it conformed to applicable constitutional and statutory provisions.
†Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., Attorney General, and John G. Knorr III, Chief Deputy Attorney General; and for United States Senator Herb Kohl et al. by Brady C. Williamson.
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the City of Detroit by Linda D. Fegins; and for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law et al. by Jonathan L. Greenblatt, Paul C. Saunders, Herbert J. Hansell, Norman Redlich, Barbara R. Arnwine, Thomas J. Henderson, Christopher A. Hansen, Steven R. Shapiro, Samuel Rabinove, Elaine R. Jones, Theodore M. Shaw, Charles Stephen Ralston, and Arthur N. Eisenberg.
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