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This bill, known as the Courthouse Affordability and Space Efficiency (CASE) Act of 2025, aims to control courthouse construction costs and improve space efficiency by establishing new guidelines for the General Services Administration (GSA). The legislation prohibits the GSA from starting construction on new courthouses unless they meet specific courtroom sharing requirements, which include limiting the number of courtrooms based on the number of active district, bankruptcy, senior district, and magistrate judges. For instance, in courthouses with 10 or more active district judges, there must be 2 courtrooms per 3 judges, with a minimum of 9 courtrooms. The bill requires the United States Courts Design Guide to be updated within 180 days to incorporate these sharing requirements, and mandates that any new courthouse adding capacity must ensure existing space in the same courthouse complex is fully utilized or removed from the GSA's inventory. These provisions are designed to reduce unnecessary courthouse construction and optimize the use of existing judicial spaces, ultimately lowering government spending on court facilities.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3426/all-info