"Federal Courts Crack Down on Judge Shopping Tactics"

The federal judiciary has approved a new policy to prevent "judge-shopping" by ensuring that cases seeking to block state or federal policies in federal district courts will be randomly assigned from a larger pool of judges. This change comes in response to concerns about lawyers taking advantage of anomalies in judge assignments to secure favorable rulings. The policy aims to address the issue of nationwide injunctions being issued by individual district court judges and will provide guidance on how cases should be assigned, while still allowing lawsuits to be filed in districts with a particular judicial approach.