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Redistricting Cases and Demographic Projects
Mr. Bryan brings 30 years of experience, with a team of internationally renowned experts with more than two centuries of experience to work on some of the most challenging political redistricting cases and applied demographic projects in the country - ranging from municipal infrastructure to public health research school redistricting to fair housing cases.
Recent Redistricting Cases
2023: Retained by counsel In the matter of Jessica Garcia Shafer and Dona Kim Murphey v. Pearland Independent School District, et al. Providing expert demographic and analytic litigation support to Defendants.
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2023: Retained by counsel in the matter of Grace, Inc. v. City of Miami in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Providing expert demographic and analytic litigation support of Defendants.
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2022: Retained by counsel in the matter of Rivera et al. v Schwab for the Kansas Legislature in support of litigation. Providing expert demographic and analytic litigation support of Defendants.
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2022: In the matter of White v. Mississippi State Board of Election Commissioners In collaboration with demographic testifying expert Dr. David Swanson, on behalf of Defendants. Provided expert demographic and analytic litigation support of Defendants.
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2022: Retained by counsel as demographic and redistricting expert for the State of Michigan in the matter of Banerian v. Benson and related Michigan redistricting litigation. Offering opinions on demography and redistricting for Michigan’s Congressional redistricting plan. Currently before SCOTUS pending jurisdictional statement.
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2021: Retained as demographic and redistricting expert for the Wisconsin Legislature in Johnson v. Wisconsin Elections Commission and related Wisconsin redistricting litigation.
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2021: Retained as demographic and redistricting expert by Democratic Counsel for the State of Illinois in the case of McConchie v. State Board of Elections.
Illustrative Demographic Projects
2023: Retained by Greenville, South Carolina Water to develop small-area, long-term population projections to support long-range infrastructure planning and investment. Click here for more information.
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2021: Developed a national block-group data file from 2020 Census data with multi-race populations allocated to single-race categories for RAND to support the ongoing development and enhancement of Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG). Click here for more information on BISG.
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2018-2019: Client Confidential. Leveraged the National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to develop a comprehensive analysis of opioid use, misuse, dependence, abuse and opioid use disorder (OUD). Analytics included prevalence analysis, demographic profiles, insurance and treatment trends, comorbidities, other drug use, dependence and abuse covariates. Click here for more information on NSDUH.
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2008: Commissioned as expert to provide demographic analytic support in defense of putative class-action lawsuit against DuPont alleging PFOA's and other chemicals were released by Teflon products during cooking. Used Consumer Expenditure Survey, Current Population Survey, and U.S. Census PUMS data to produce model showing how interstate migration diluted the class over the 10-year class period plaintiffs sought . Result: class successfully de-certified. Click here for more information on the case​.
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