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18 U.S.C. § 291 — Purchase of claims for fees by court officials

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 95 words · no verdicts yet

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Certain federal court officials — judges, clerks, marshals, prosecutors, and similar officers — commit a crime if they buy someone's unpaid federal court fee or expense claim below its full value. They face a fine.

This section applies to a judge, clerk, or deputy clerk of any U.S. or territorial court, a U.S. district attorney, assistant attorney, marshal, deputy marshal, magistrate judge, or anyone else holding a federal office, job, or position of trust or profit. If any of these people, directly or indirectly, buy a claim against the United States for less than its full value — where the claim is for a fee, mileage, or expenses owed to a witness, juror, deputy marshal, or other court officer — they must be fined under this title.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whoever, being a judge, clerk, or deputy clerk of any court of the United States or a Territory or Possession thereof, or a United States district attorney, assistant attorney, marshal, deputy marshal, magistrate judge, or other person holding any office or employment, or position of trust or profit under the United States, directly or indirectly purchases at less than the full face value thereof, any claim against the United States for the fee, mileage, or expenses of any witness, juror, deputy marshal, or any other officer of such court, shall be fined under this title.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 699; Pub. L. 90–578, title IV, § 402(b)(2), Oct. 17, 1968, 82 Stat. 1118; Pub. L. 101–650, title III, § 321, Dec. 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5117; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 699
  • 1968Amended · Pub. L. 90-578 · 82 Stat. 1118
  • 1990Amended · Pub. L. 101-650 · 104 Stat. 5117
  • 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2147

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 645 on 1948-06-25.

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