A federal appeals court indicated that a district court might have overstepped its bounds when it found that the U.S. Census Bureau could not complete an accurate census count by Congress’ Dec. 31 deadline.

A panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit appeared hesitant to affirm U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh’s Sept. 24 order granting a stay and preliminary injunction that prohibited the government from implementing a plan that would expedite census gathering operations. The order requires the agency to stick with a plan devised in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which would bypass the Dec. 31 deadline.

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