---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 1714"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "1714"
heading: "Protection against discrimination based on geographic location"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/1714"
units:
  - "Part V — Procedure"
  - "Chapter 114 — Class Actions"
---

# §1714. Protection against discrimination based on geographic location


The court may not approve a [proposed settlement](/usc/28/1711.md?p=6) that provides for the payment of greater sums to some [class members](/usc/28/1711.md?p=4) than to others solely on the basis that the [class members](/usc/28/1711.md?p=4) to whom the greater sums are to be paid are located in closer geographic proximity to the court.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–2, § 3(a), Feb. 18, 2005, 119 Stat. 7.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section applicable to any civil action commenced on or after Feb. 18, 2005, see section 9 of Pub. L. 109–2, set out as an Effective Date of 2005 Amendment note under section 1332 of this title.