End Judge Shopping Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4096 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4096

   To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for the random 
   assignment of certain cases in the district courts of the United 
                                States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 10, 2024

 Mr. Schumer (for himself, Mr. Whitehouse, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Wyden, Mrs. 
 Shaheen, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Blumenthal, 
 Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Fetterman, Mr. Markey, Mr. Reed, Mr. Van Hollen, 
Mr. Warnock, Ms. Duckworth, Ms. Hassan, Ms. Butler, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. 
 Merkley, Ms. Warren, Mr. Kaine, Ms. Smith, Mr. Booker, Mr. Welch, Mr. 
Warner, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. King, Mr. Carper, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Schatz, Ms. 
 Rosen, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Peters, Mr. Coons, 
 Mr. Padilla, Mr. Lujan, and Mr. Casey) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for the random 
   assignment of certain cases in the district courts of the United 
                                States.

    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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