Interested cities need to submit their statement of interest by March 15.
The federal government filed a "statement of interest" last month supporting the plaintiffs in the case against the Texas redistricting plan.
The office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, was not involved in the case but made its views known in a statement of interest.
"Our initial statement of interest was used as a key piece of evidence in the case, I think that's very encouraging".
The Justice Department's action — filing a "statement of interest" in that case — will bring the weight of the federal government behind those efforts.
The price of wanting to know how much money you've got I closed two Abbey retirement bonds and needed a statement of interest for my records.
Its statement of interest March 5 in resuming official contacts with its Russian counterparts, broken last August, was "not enough," Moscow's ambassador to NATO said.
In its action Friday, the government filed a statement of interest asserting military and state secret privilege in asking the judge, Vaughn R. Walker, to dismiss the suit.
But the so-called statement of interest, which the department filed late Wednesday in Federal District Court in Manhattan, stopped short of offering the Justice Department itself as a monitor for the Police Department.
Under the compensation agreement thrashed out last summer between lawyers for the victims and German negotiators, the American government had promised to issue a "statement of interest" recommending that American courts dismiss all pending and future claims against German companies.
