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Committee approves narrower vexatious‑litigant standard and sends revised rule to floor
Summary
The Judiciary Committee amended and approved Senate Bill 23‑82, moving a court rule into statute with two small changes: lowering a threshold from three prior adverse litigations to two and sending a courtesy copy of pre‑filing orders to federal district courts; the committee also removed language extending the rule to a party's immediate family.
Senator Jonathan Sickler, sponsor of Senate Bill 23‑82, asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to adopt a statutory version of the state’s vexatious‑litigant rule (Rule 58) with two proposed adjustments. The committee approved an amendment and a do‑pass motion as amended.
What the bill does: SB 23‑82 moves the state’s vexatious‑litigant rule into Century Code and makes two substantive changes to the version of Rule 58 that the Judicial Rules Committee had approved to take effect March 1. First, the bill lowers one numerical threshold in the definition of a vexatious litigant from three prior adverse litigations to two. Second, it requires district courts that enter a pre‑filing order to send a…
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