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‘It’s very unsavory’: 5th Circuit judge brutally criticizes law professor for judge-shopping research — says his comments are ‘attacks on the rule of law’

‘It’s very unsavory’: 5th Circuit judge brutally criticizes law professor for judge-shopping research — says his comments are ‘attacks on the rule of law’

A judge on the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit harshly criticized a prominent legal scholar and law professor during a recent panel discussion hosted by the Federalist Society. Georgetown University Law Professor Steve Vladeck studies, among other subjects, “judge-shopping,” the process of filing lawsuits in single-judge divisions — typically to obtain...