If an action is filed or removed to this Court and subsequently discontinued, dismissed
without prejudice, or remanded to a state court and is then subsequently refiled or removed,
the new case shall be assigned or transferred to the same District Judge and Magistrate
Judge who were assigned the initial case. Counsel or a pro se party shall be responsible
for bringing to the attention of the Court by notation on the civil cover sheet or otherwise
any relationship between a new case and an earlier one. The Chief District Judge has
authority, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 137, to approve such exceptions to this assignment policy
as are in the interests of justice.
