Federal Courts Aim to Curb Judge Shopping With New Policy (3)

The federal judiciary’s administrative arm said it’s approved a new policy aimed at curbing litigants who seek to file lawsuits before specific judges.

The issue of “judge shopping” has repeatedly come up in Texas in recent years, where Republican attorneys general and conservative litigants have filed challenges to Biden administration actions in divisions where one judge is automatically assigned all cases, with an eye toward getting a favorable decision in their favor.

In a release on Tuesday, the judiciary said that civil actions that seek to bar or implement state or federal actions, “whether by declaratory judgment ...