3.0.0 299 2019-11-15T21:57:17Z 2019-11-15T21:57:17Z Senate S S 2009-01-22 111 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2009-01-22T21:10:18Z 111 628 HR 2011-01-04 Became Public Law No: 111-349. Identical bill CRS 2009-01-22 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2009-01-22 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S000709 Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA] ARLEN SPECTER R PA N H.R.628 https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/628 Law Federal district courts Horticulture and plants Intellectual property Judges Law

00 2009-01-22 Introduced in Senate 2009-02-09T21:06:31Z Establishes a pilot program in certain U.S. district courts under which: (1) those district judges who request to hear cases involving patent or plant variety protection issues are designated by the chief judge to hear them; (2) such cases are randomly assigned to the district court judges, regardless of whether they are designated; (3) a judge not designated to whom such a case is assigned may decline to accept the case; and (4) a case so declined is randomly reassigned to one of those judges so designated.

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