I was delighted to see the Judicial Conference of the United States is acting to promote random case assignment in certain declaratory judgment and injunction cases. You can read the press release ...

“The random case-assignment policy deters judge-shopping and the assignment of cases based on the perceived merits or abilities of a particular judge. It promotes the impartiality of proceedings and ...

On March 12, 2024, the Judicial Conference of the United States announced new guidance applying to case assignments in federal district courts, with the intent to curb “judge-shopping” by limiting ...

On March 12, 2024, the Judicial Conference of the United States (“Judicial Conference”) announced that, in an effort to limit the ability of litigants to select judges in certain cases based on where ...

"If you look at the cases that are new that don't relate back to prior cases, then interest in the district has fallen considerably," Brian Love said. A Santa Clara University report analyzed the ...

Practically all citizens agree that the federal judiciary is critically important to our democracy. For citizens to have confidence in and respect for the judiciary, it must be above suspicion. To ...

The policy requires random case assignment among all judges in a district whenever a litigant seeks a national injunction in a single-judge division. After the U.S. Judicial Conference announced its ...

Judge Liles Burke says will consider sanctioning lawyers for misconduct Report finds lawyers tried to circumvent random assignment of judges March 20 (Reuters) - Eleven attorneys at major LGBTQ rights ...

The Chief Justice and his associates target only one type of forum shopping in response to political criticism through a secret policy that will not be released for months. The Judicial Conference of ...

Federal judiciary leaders on Friday released the text of a revised policy directingdistrict courts to assign judges at random in civil cases that have statewide or national implications, making clear ...