The U.S. Supreme Court may have been telegraphing a message to lawyers in Thursday's mifepristone ruling, one expert says. That message: Stop court-shopping.
Skeptics think the plaintiffs in the mifepristone suit went to Amarillo to file because the only judge in the courthouse is a known conservative named Matthew Kacsmaryk. And they suspected he would rule in their favor.
It's called court or forum shopping and both sides do it. It works like this: Find a friendly jurisdiction, file your suit. But with Thursday's 9-0 ruling, UNT Dallas law professor Brian Owsley said he thinks the Supreme Court may be signaling it's had enough.
"Chief Justice Roberts and the court sort of generally have told people to stop doing the forum shopping, like going to Kacsmaryk's court to try to influence litigation," he said.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wrote a letter to the chief judge in North Texas asking him to take a closer look at where politically charged suits are filed.
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