Texas federal court district rebuffs effort to curb ‘judge-shopping’ tactic

A federal trial court in Texas commonly targeted by litigants as a way to guarantee a conservative judge will hear their case is rebuffing the push by US judiciary’s policy-making body to rein in the tactic, known as “judge-shopping.

The conference recommended last month that any lawsuit seeking a nationwide or statewide order be randomly assigned among a district-wide pool of judges, even if it was filed in a single-judge division. The trial judges in his district had met last week to discuss case assignments, and, Godbey wrote, “The consensus was not to make any change to our case assignment process at this time.” Godbey’s letter to Schumer was first reported by Law360.

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