A federal district judge Monday, Jan. 26, ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by the federal government seeking unredacted information about individual Oregon voters.

U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai’s ruling followed through on what the judge called a “tentative” decision made after oral arguments Jan. 14, but also came after a last-minute hearing held over videoconference Monday after correspondence Jan. 24 from U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Bondi, in a letter describing reasons for the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota, asked for the state’s cooperation with the Department of Justice on three points, “one of which is to allow the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to access voter rolls to confirm that Minnesota’s voter registration practices comply with federal law as authorized by the Civil Rights Act of 1960,” according to an order calling for Monday’s hearing.

The Associated Press reported Kasubhai asked both sides to provide arguments about the letter and how it related to interpreting the “basis and purpose” of the request for Oregon voter data.

At the Jan. 14 hearing, Kasubhai appeared to disagree with arguments from the U.S. Department of Justice and said he anticipated dismissing the lawsuit, which sought from Oregon personally identifiable information about all the state’s voters, including address information, date of birth, and driver’s license number or the last four digits of the registered voter’s Social Security number.

After the Monday hearing, Kasubhai formally granted the request from Oregon to dismiss the lawsuit, stating he will issue a more detailed written order later.