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<dc:title>119 HR 97 IH: Injunctive Authority Clarification Act of 2025</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2025-01-03</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">I</distribution-code><congress display="yes">119th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">1st Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 97</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber><action display="yes"><action-date date="20250103">January 3, 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="B001302">Mr. Biggs of Arizona</sponsor> introduced the following bill; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HJU00">Committee on the Judiciary</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To amend title 28, United States Code, to prohibit the issuance of national injunctions, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body id="HED9472297B074C01AFFD30B720B2BB65" style="OLC"><section id="HAB44FBCFE1DD4BEFB6D59BBF7820B813" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Injunctive Authority Clarification Act of 2025</short-title></quote>.</text></section><section id="HBF5A25F8DE74469C9BBA7531D267FCBC"><enum>2.</enum><header>Orders purporting to restrain enforcement against non-parties</header><subsection id="HD47FDF480C53431EAB8A493584BFF2B7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/28/155">Chapter 155</external-xref> of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2563FDCFE2C14975BE62F8E1E0FBBD84" style="USC"><section id="HCA4E4CCC51F048428335F484CFA533E8"><enum>2285.</enum><header>Orders purporting to restrain enforcement against non-parties</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">No court of the United States (and no district court of the Virgin Islands, Guam, or the Northern Mariana Islands) shall issue an order that purports to restrain the enforcement against a non-party of any statute, regulation, order, or similar authority, unless the non-party is represented by a party acting in a representative capacity pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.</text></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H004A19877F9A4A3D9F681D480C37C54B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of sections for <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/28/155">chapter 155</external-xref> of title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/28/2285">section 2285</external-xref> the following:</text><quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1F2FE65F527644489F0D296649D9222C" style="USC"><toc regeneration="no-regeneration"><toc-entry level="section">2285. Orders purporting to restrain enforcement against non-parties.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section></legis-body></bill> 

