Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is looking at legislative options to ensure federal court cases are randomly assigned after a top U.S. district court judge in Texas rejected Mr. Schumer’s calls to change his court’s case assignment methods.
Mr. Schumer has urged courts to adopt a randomized case assignment process to curtail a practice commonly known as “judge shopping,” wherein litigants try to bring lawsuits before specific judges and courts they believe are more likely to rule in their favor.
