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Posted by: Paul Burch on Oct 18, 2023

A federal judicial rules-making panel agreed today to examine whether to curtail "judge shopping" by state attorneys general and activists who file lawsuits challenging government policies in courthouses where a single, sympathetic judge hears most cases, reports Reuters. At a meeting in Washington, D.C., members of the U.S. Judicial Conference's Advisory Committee on Civil Rules grappled with whether it could or should craft nationwide rules to ensure such cases are randomly assigned a judge. U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg, the panel's chair, said it was a "highly important" issue that the committee needed to at least study given that "people outside the judiciary are watching to see what, if anything, we do."