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Committee recommends 'do not pass' on bill to lower threshold for vexatious-litigant findings
Summary
The House Judiciary Committee voted 7-4 with three members absent to recommend a do-not-pass on Senate Bill 2382, which would have changed procedures for declaring vexatious litigants by lowering a numeric threshold and requiring pre-filing orders be sent to federal district courts.
The House Judiciary Committee recommended a do-not-pass on Senate Bill 2382 by a 7-4 vote, rejecting a proposal to change the procedures that can be used to declare a litigant vexatious. The bill would have reduced one of the numeric thresholds in the court rule from three prior adverse litigations to two and would have required state clerks to send pre-filing orders to the federal district clerks for the district.
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