U.S. Supreme Court to Tackle Judicial ‘Shopping’ in Landmark EPA Regulation Case
Washington — The U.S. Supreme Court is set to deliberate on a legal phenomenon that some critics term “judge shopping,” where litigants seek out courts believed to be favorable to their case. The practice involves a strategic selection of venues seen as more likely to provide sympathetic judicial ears to specific legal challenges. This method has been employed to varying extents by both ends of the ideological spectrum. However, recent strategies deployed by business sectors, conservative factions, and several republican state attorneys general have predominantly homed in on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, spanning … Read more