28 U.S.C. § 518 — Conduct and argument of cases
submitted 60 years ago by Pub. L. 89-554 to r/title-28-JUDICIARY-AND-JUDICIAL-PROCEDURE · 120 words · no verdicts yet
This section assigns the Attorney General and Solicitor General responsibility for specified United States cases. It also lets the Attorney General personally handle, or assign, other cases involving the United States.
(a) Except when the Attorney General in a particular case directs otherwise, the Attorney General and the Solicitor General must conduct and argue suits and appeals in the Supreme Court and suits in the United States Court of Federal Claims or in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and in the Court of International Trade in which the United States is interested. (b) When the Attorney General considers it in the interests of the United States, he may personally conduct and argue any case in a court of the United States* in which the United States is interested, or he may direct the Solicitor General or any officer of the Department* of Justice to do so.
Except when the Attorney General in a particular case directs otherwise, the Attorney General and the Solicitor General shall conduct and argue suits and appeals in the Supreme Court and suits in the United States Court of Federal Claims or in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and in the Court of International Trade in which the United States is interested.
When the Attorney General considers it in the interests of the United States, he may personally conduct and argue any case in a court of the United States* in which the United States is interested, or he may direct the Solicitor General or any officer of the Department* of Justice to do so.
Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 89–554, § 4(c), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 613; amended Pub. L. 96–417, title V, § 503, Oct. 10, 1980, 94 Stat. 1743; Pub. L. 97–164, title I, § 117, Apr. 2, 1982, 96 Stat. 32; Pub. L. 102–572, title IX, § 902(b)(1), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4516.)
- 1966Enacted · Pub. L. 89-554 · 80 Stat. 613
- 1980Amended · Pub. L. 96-417 · 94 Stat. 1743
- 1982Amended · Pub. L. 97-164 · 96 Stat. 32
- 1992Amended · Pub. L. 102-572 · 106 Stat. 4516
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