Groups Ask Texas Courts to End Judge Shopping with New Rules

A coalition of progressive groups is asking the four federal district courts in Texas to adopt rules to prevent the ongoing practice of judge shopping.

In a lettersent Monday night, the National Immigration Law Center and eight other organizations told the chief judges in the four Texas districts that litigants, led by state officials, are exploiting the courts’ case assignment rules to enjoin federal policies nationwide.

“While the undersigned organizations are frequently adverse to the parties who are presently engaged in judge shopping, the practice these organizations seek to curb is one that is almost universally condemned,” the coalition ...