South Florida’s federal judges have declined to change their current system of transferring cases to one another outside the random assignment process, despite concerns raised by the federal public defender that the current system could open the door to forum shopping by litigants.
In a meeting last Wednesday to vote on whether to change their internal operating procedures, the judges blasted a proposal by Federal Public Defender Kathleen M. Williams to impose restrictions on their ability to transfer cases among themselves.
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