{"id":140860,"date":"2026-01-05T02:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/05\/judge-shopping-consequences-are-worth-keeping-tabs-on-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T02:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:59:59","slug":"judge-shopping-consequences-are-worth-keeping-tabs-on-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/05\/judge-shopping-consequences-are-worth-keeping-tabs-on-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Shopping ‘Consequences’ Are Worth Keeping Tabs On, Experts Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The thing to keep in mind is that random case assignment is subject to so many exceptions across the federal courts, said Syracuse University College of Law professor Katherine Macfarlane. \u201cRandom assignment is this exalted principle, but I don’t even know if it’s the default.<\/p>\n

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“The thing to keep in mind is that random case assignment is subject to so many exceptions across the federal courts, said Syracuse University College of Law professor Katherine Macfarlane. \u201cRandom assignment is this exalted principle, but I don’t even know if it’s the default.<\/p>\n

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“The thing to keep in mind is that random case assignment is subject to so many exceptions across the federal courts, said Syracuse University College of Law professor Katherine Macfarlane. \u201cRandom assignment is this exalted principle, but I don’t even know if it’s the default. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “The thing to keep in mind is that random […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/legal-news-5FF8iD.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}