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Floor Speech

Date: April 10, 2024
Location: Washington, DC
Keyword Search: Relief


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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``End Judge Shopping Act''. SEC. 2. DIVISION OF BUSINESS AMONG DISTRICT JUDGES.

Section 137 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

``(c) Random Assignment of Other Cases.--

``(1) Definition.--In this subsection, the term `law' includes, with respect to an executive branch or a State or Federal agency, a rule, a regulation, a policy, and an order.

``(2) Random assignment.--Any civil action brought for declaratory, injunctive, or other equitable relief seeking (whether facially or as-applied) to challenge the constitutionality or lawfulness of, or to bar, restrain, vacate, set aside, or mandate the enforcement of, any provision of a Federal law on a nationwide basis, or any provision of a State law on a statewide basis in that State, shall be randomly assigned to a judge of the district court in which the civil action is filed.''.

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