Case 3:18-cv-01865-RS Document 214 Filed 05/30/19 Page 1 of 5 1 XAVIER BECERRA Attorney General of California 2 MARK R. BECKINGTON ANTHONY R. HAKL 3 Supervising Deputy Attorneys General GABRIELLE D. BOUTIN, SBN 267308 4 R. MATTHEW WISE, SBN 238485 ANNA T. FERRARI, SBN 261579 5 TODD GRABARSKY, SBN 286999 NOREEN P. SKELLY, SBN 186135 6 Deputy Attorneys General 1300 I Street, Suite 125 7 P.O. Box 944255 Sacramento, CA 94244-2550 8 Telephone: (916) 210-6053 Fax: (916) 324-8835 9 E-mail: [email protected] Attorneys for Plaintiff State of California, by and 10 through Attorney General Xavier Becerra 11 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 12 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 13 SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 14 15 STATE OF CALIFORNIA, et al. Case No. 18-cv-01865-RS 16 Plaintiffs, 18-cv-02279-RS 17 v. 18 NOTICE OF PROCEEDINGS IN WILBUR L. ROSS, et al., RELATED ACTION 19 Defendants. 20 ------------------------------------------------------ 21 CITY OF SAN JOSE, et al., 22 Plaintiffs, 23 v. 24 WILBUR L. ROSS, et al., 25 Defendants. 26 27 28 Case 3:18-cv-01865-RS Document 214 Filed 05/30/19 Page 2 of 5 1 The plaintiffs in the above-captioned cases respectfully provide notice to the Court of 2 proceedings in the related action of State of New York v. U.S. Department of Commerce, 18-CV- 3 2921 in the United States Court for the Southern District of New York (New York action). 4 On May 30, 2019, certain plaintiffs in the New York action filed in the district court a 5 request for an order to show cause whether sanctions or other appropriate relief are warranted in 6 light of new evidence contradicting sworn deposition testimony in that case. See Exhibit A. The 7 depositions at issue were jointly noticed and taken by the plaintiffs in this case in accordance with 8 this Court’s order to coordinate discovery among the related census cases. See ECF Nos. 76 9 (Order to coordinate discovery); see also ECF Nos. 224 in the New York action (Order affirming 10 multi-case plaintiffs’ discovery plan). 11 Dated: May 30, 2019 Respectfully Submitted, 12 XAVIER BECERRA 13 Attorney General of California MARK R. BECKINGTON 14 ANTHONY R. HAKL Supervising Deputy Attorneys General 15 R. MATTHEW WISE ANNA T. FERRARI 16 TODD GRABARSKY NOREEN P. SKELLY 17 Deputy Attorneys General 18 /s/ Gabrielle D. Boutin GABRIELLE D. BOUTIN 19 Deputy Attorney General Attorneys for Plaintiff State of California, by and 20 through Attorney General Xavier Becerra 21 Dated: May 30, 2019 /s/ Charles L. Coleman _______ 22 CHARLES L. COLEMAN III, SBN 65496 23 DAVID I. HOLTZMAN HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP 24 50 California Street, 28th Floor San Francisco, CA 94111 25 Telephone: (415) 743-6970 Fax: (415) 743-6910 26 Email: [email protected] Attorneys for Plaintiff County of Los Angeles 27 28 Case 3:18-cv-01865-RS Document 214 Filed 05/30/19 Page 3 of 5 1 Dated: May 30, 2019 MIKE FEUER 2 City Attorney for the City of Los Angeles 3 /s/ Valerie Flores _______ VALERIE FLORES, SBN 138572 4 Managing Senior Assistant City Attorney 200 North Main Street, 7th Floor, MS 140 5 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Telephone: (213) 978-8130 6 Fax: (213) 978-8222 Email: [email protected] 7 8 Dated: May 30, 2019 HARVEY LEVINE City Attorney for the City of Fremont 9 /s/ Harvey Levine _______ 10 SBN 61880 3300 Capitol Ave. 11 Fremont, CA 94538 Telephone: (510) 284-4030 12 Fax: (510) 284-4031 Email: [email protected] 13 14 Dated: May 30, 2019 CHARLES PARKIN City Attorney for the City of Long Beach 15 /s/ Charles Parkin _______ 16 SBN 159162 333 W. Ocean Blvd., 11th Floor 17 Long Beach CA, 90802 Telephone: (562) 570-2200 18 Fax: (562) 436-1579 Email: [email protected] 19 20 Dated: May 30, 2019 BARBARA J. PARKER City Attorney for the City of Oakland 21 /s/ Erin Bernstein _______ 22 MARIA BEE Chief Assistant City Attorney 23 ERIN BERNSTEIN, SBN 231539 Supervising Deputy City Attorney 24 MALIA MCPHERSON Deputy City Attorney 25 City Hall, 6th Floor 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza 26 Oakland, California 94612 Telephone: (510) 238-3601 27 Fax: (510) 238-6500 Email: [email protected] 28 Case 3:18-cv-01865-RS Document 214 Filed 05/30/19 Page 4 of 5 1 Dated: May 30, 2019 JOHN LUEBBERKE City Attorney for the City of Stockton 2 /s/ John Luebberke _______ 3 SBN 164893 425 N. El Dorado Street, 2nd Floor 4 Stockton, CA 95202 Telephone: (209) 937-8333 5 Fax: (209) 937-8898 Email: [email protected] 6 Dated: May 30, 2019 DANNIS WOLIVER KELLEY 7 SUE ANN SALMON EVANS KEITH A. YEOMANS 8 /s/ Keith A. Yeomans 9 Keith A. Yeomans 10 Attorneys for Plaintiff-Intervenor Los Angeles Unified School District 11 Dated: May 30, 2019 MANATT, PHELPS & PHILLIPS, LLP 12 By: s/ Andrew Case John F. Libby 13 John W. McGuinness 14 Emil Petrossian Andrew Case (pro hac vice) 15 Ana Guardado 11355 West Olympic Boulevard 16 Los Angeles, California 90064 Telephone: (310) 312-4000 17 Facsimile: (310) 312-4224 18 LAWYERS’ COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL 19 RIGHTS UNDER LAW Kristen Clarke 20 Jon M. Greenbaum Ezra D. Rosenberg 21 Dorian L. Spence 1500 K Street NW, Suite 900 22 Washington, DC 20005 Telephone: (202) 662-8600 23 Facsimile: (202) 783-0857 24 PUBLIC COUNSEL Mark Rosenbaum 25 610 South Ardmore Avenue Los Angeles, California 90005 26 Telephone: (213) 385-2977 Facsimile: (213) 385-9089 27 28 Case 3:18-cv-01865-RS Document 214 Filed 05/30/19 Page 5 of 5 1 CITY OF SAN JOSE Richard Doyle, City Attorney 2 Nora Frimann, Assistant City Attorney Office of the City Attorney 3 200 East Santa Clara Street, 16th Floor San José, California 95113-1905 4 Telephone Number: (408) 535-1900 Facsimile Number: (408) 998-3131 5 E-Mail: [email protected] 6 Attorneys for Plaintiffs CITY OF SAN JOSE and BLACK ALLIANCE 7 FOR JUST IMMIGRATION 8 9 FILER’S ATTESTATION 10 Pursuant to Civil Local Rule 5-1(i)(3), regarding signatures, I hereby attest that 11 concurrence in the filing of this document has been obtained from all signatories above. 12 Dated: May 30, 2019 /s/ Gabrielle D. Boutin 13 GABRIELLE D. BOUTIN 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Case 3:18-cv-01865-RS Document 214-1 Filed 05/30/19 Page 1 of 131 EXHIBIT A CaseCase 3:18-cv-01865-RS 1:18-cv-02921-JMF Document Document 214-1 587 Filed Filed 05/30/19 05/30/19 Page Page 2 1 of of 131 4 May 30, 2019 The Honorable Jesse M. Furman United States District Court for the Southern District of New York 40 Centre Street, Room 2202 New York, NY 10007 RE: NYIC Plaintiffs’ motion for an order to show cause in State of New York, et al. v. U.S. Dep’t of Commerce, et al., 18-CV-2921 (JMF) Dear Judge Furman: Pursuant to Rule 3(A) of this Court’s Individual Rules and Practices, NYIC Plaintiffs request an order to show cause whether sanctions or other appropriate relief are warranted in light of new evidence that contradicts sworn testimony of Secretary Ross’s expert advisor A. Mark Neuman and senior DOJ official John Gore, as well as other representations by Defendants to this Court, on the central issues in this case. The new evidence, concealed by Defendants here, strongly underscores the pretextual basis for Defendants’ decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Decennial Census. Although the appeal of this Court’s judgment is pending, this Court retains jurisdiction over “collateral matters related to the case,” such as “sanctions” and “contempt-related matters.” Aviv v. Brainard, 2018 WL 5668623, at *3 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 1, 2018). The new evidence reveals that Dr. Thomas Hofeller, the longtime Republican redistricting specialist, played a significant role in orchestrating the addition of the citizenship question to the 2020 Decennial Census in order to create a structural electoral advantage for, in his own words, “Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites,” and that Defendants obscured his role through affirmative misrepresentations. Specifically, new evidence shows that: (1) Dr. Hofeller concluded in a 2015 study that adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census “would clearly be a disadvantage to the Democrats” and “advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites” in redistricting; (2) in August 2017, Dr. Hofeller helped ghostwrite a draft DOJ letter to Commerce requesting a citizenship question and providing the Voting Rights Act enforcement rationale for doing so; (3) Neuman gave this ghostwritten draft DOJ letter to Gore in October 2017; and (4) the letter that DOJ eventually sent to Commerce in December 2017 adopted the same VRA rationale and bears striking similarities to Dr. Hofeller’s 2015 study stating that a citizenship question on the Census was essential to advantaging Republicans and white voters. Based on this new evidence, it appears that both Neuman and Gore falsely testified about the genesis of DOJ’s request to Commerce in ways that obscured the pretextual character of the request. Neuman falsely testified that Gore repeatedly testified that he prepared the initial draft of the DOJ letter, failing to disclose that Neuman gave him a draft of the DOJ letter in October 2017. Both Neuman and Gore concealed Dr. Hofeller’s role in crafting the October 2017 draft letter and the VRA enforcement rationale it advanced.