PRIETO v. STANS

Civ. A. No. C 70-430.

321 F.Supp. 420 (1970)

Augustin L. PRIETO, Alfonso Fernandez, and Maria Trinidad Hurtado, on their own behalf and on behalf of all those similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Maurice STANS, Secretary of the United States Department of Commerce, George H. Brown, Director of the United States Bureau of the Census, and Richard J. Mullikan, Area Director of Northern California and Northern Nevada for the United States Bureau of the Census, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

April 10, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas L. Fike, Oakland, Loren Mitchell, Jack Benoun, Legal Aid Society of Alameda County, Hayward, Cal., Jerald Wilhelm, Fremont, Cal., Legal Assistance Center of Washington Tp., for plaintiffs.

William D. Ruckelshaus, Asst. Atty. Gen., James L. Browning, Jr., U. S. Atty., William B. Spohn, Steven Kazan, Asst. U. S. Attys., Harland F. Leathers, E. Grey Lewis, Department of Justice, for defendants.


ORDER DENYING DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS AND PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

GERALD S. LEVIN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs bring this class action on their own behalf and on behalf of all those other persons who consider themselves to be Mexican-Americans, but who fear that they will not be counted as such in the 1970 Census. Plaintiffs contend that neither the mail-out, mail-back procedure nor the community education and follow-up procedures...

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