Limits federal district court injunctions to the parties in the case

§1What it does

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This bill would bar federal district courts from issuing injunctions, court orders that block an action, except orders that limit what a party to the case may do with respect to the party that asked for the order and anyone it formally represents, such as members of a class action.^2,3,4 In the version the House passed, a case brought by two or more states in different federal court circuits that challenges an action of the executive branch would go to a randomly chosen panel of three judges, which could issue a broader injunction after weighing the interests of justice, the risk of irreparable harm to people not in the case and the separation of powers.² Appeals of such a panel's decision could go either to the regional appeals court or directly to the Supreme Court, at the choice of the party appealing.²

§2Status

§3How Congress voted

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