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Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act
This bill bans foreign governments and sovereign wealth funds from financing federal civil lawsuits or taking a cut of the financial proceeds if they are not an official party to the case. It also requires anyone involved in a federal civil lawsuit to disclose any outside foreign funding and submit their funding contracts to the court, the opposing parties, and the Department of Justice. Lawsuits funded by foreign governments would be permanently dismissed, and any past rulings in those cases could be overturned. In addition, the Department of Justice would be required to submit annual reports to Congress detailing foreign money used in federal courts.
People affected—not determinable from the text provided; applies to litigants, attorneys, and foreign funders involved in federal civil litigation without specifying a population count.
Fiscal magnitude—CBO cost estimate published (H.R. 2675, Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act, 2026-02-27); dollar figure pending review extraction — see receipt
Reach52provisional · pending reviewrigor: heuristic llm
What this bill touches.
Courts & liability−35
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who it helps
- Opposing parties in federal civil litigationGain the right to receive foreign litigation funding disclosures and documentation from opposing parties, and are empowered to obtain dismissals with prejudice or relief from final judgments in actions using prohibited foreign funding (Sec. 2(a)).
Who it burdens
- Federal civil litigants and attorneysAre barred from receiving litigation funding from foreign states or sovereign wealth funds, must disclose foreign funders and produce agreements under penalty of perjury, and face mandatory dismissal of lawsuits with prejudice or discovery sanctions for noncompliance (Sec. 2(a)).
- Department of JusticeMust receive mandatory foreign litigation funding disclosures and prepare an annual report to Congress detailing foreign third-party litigation funding activities in federal courts (Sec. 2(a), Sec. 3).
Who opposes it
- Foreign states and sovereign wealth fundsAre prohibited from directly or indirectly providing monetary support for civil actions in which they are not named parties, and any agreements granting contingent rights to lawsuit proceeds based on such funding are rendered null and void (Sec. 2(a)).