CENSUS DATA
Census statistics are generally admissible as such, but information provided by a particular person is hearsay.{footnote}{/footnote}
Judicial notice may properly be taken as to census data,{footnote}Grand Trunk W. Ry. Co. v. South Bend, 227 U.S. 544 (1913); Fong Yue Ting v. U.S., 149 U.S. 698, 734 (1893); Barber v. Ponte, 772 F.2d 982, 998 (1st Cir.), vacated on other grounds on reh’g en banc, 772 F.2d at 996 (1985), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1050 (1986); Mitchell v. Rose, 570 F.2d 129 (6th Cir. 1978); Barnett v. Daley, 32 F.3d 1196, 1198 (7th Cir. 1994); 600 California Corp. v. Harjean Co., 284 F. Supp. 843 (D.C. Tex. 1968)
Manatt v. State, 842 S.W.2d 845, 847 (Ark. 1992); State v. Huffaker, 493 N.W.2d 832, 833-34 (Iowa 1992); Kills v. State, 901 P.2d 1368, 1384 (Mont. 1995); Olson v. City of Deadwood, 480 N.W.2d 770, 779 (S.D. 1992).
But see Varble v. Whitecotton, 190 S.W.2d 244 (Mo. 1945) (selection of petit jury in October of 1930 based on 1920 census was valid because courts only take judicial notice of official record of census and results of 1930 census had not been officially published).{/footnote} even on appeal.{footnote}U.S. v. Esquivel, 88 F.3d 722, 726 (9th Cir. 1996); Hollis v. Davis, 941 F.2d 1471, 1474 (11th Cir. 1991).
Peopl v. Howard, 84 P.2d 1315, 1329 (Cal. 1992).{/footnote}
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