Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Us Congress House Bill HB1526 Latest Draft

Bill / Engrossed Version Filed 04/10/2025

                            119THCONGRESS 
1
STSESSION H. R. 1526 
AN ACT 
To amend title 28, United States Code, to limit the authority 
of district courts to provide injunctive relief, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 2 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Rogue Rulings Act 2
of 2025’’ as the ‘‘NORRA of 2025’’. 3
SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY OF UNITED STATES 4
DISTRICT COURTS TO PROVIDE INJUNCTIVE 5
RELIEF. 6
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Chapter 85 of title 28, United 7
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-8
lowing: 9
‘‘§ 1370. Limitation on authority to provide injunctive 10
relief 11
‘‘(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), notwith-12
standing any other provision of law, no United States dis-13
trict court shall issue any order providing for injunctive 14
relief, except in the case of such an order that is applicable 15
only to limit the actions of a party to the case before such 16
district court with respect to the party seeking injunctive 17
relief from such district court and non-parties represented 18
by such a party acting in a representative capacity pursu-19
ant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. 20
‘‘(b) If a case is brought by two or more States lo-21
cated in different circuits challenging an action by the ex-22
ecutive branch, that case shall be referred to a three-judge 23
panel selected pursuant to section 2284, except that the 24
selection of judges shall be random, and not by the chief 25
judge of the circuit. The three-judge panel may issue an 26 3 
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injunction that would otherwise be prohibited under sub-1
section (a), and shall consider the interest of justice, the 2
risk of irreparable harm to non-parties, and the preserva-3
tion of the constitutional separation of powers in deter-4
mining whether to issue such an order. 5
‘‘(c) An appeal of an order granting or denying in-6
junctive relief pursuant to subsection (b) may lie to the 7
circuit embracing the district or to the Supreme Court, 8
at the preference of the party.’’. 9
(b) T
ABLE OFSECTIONS.—The table of sections for 10
such chapter is amended by adding at the end the fol-11
lowing: 12
‘‘1370. Limitation on authority to provide injunctive relief.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives April 9, 2025. 
Attest: 
Clerk.  119
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CONGRESS 
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H. R. 1526 
AN ACT 
To amend title 28, United States Code, to limit the 
authority of district courts to provide injunctive 
relief, and for other purposes.