28 U.S.C. § 257 — Publication of decisions

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 646 to r/title-28-JUDICIARY-AND-JUDICIAL-PROCEDURE · 66 words · no verdicts yet

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The Court of International Trade must keep and open its decisions for public inspection. It sends copies to the Treasury Secretary and the relevant customs officer. The Secretary must publish some decisions weekly, plus summaries of the rest.

All decisions of the Court of International Trade must be kept on file and open for the public to inspect. The court must send a copy of each decision to the Secretary of the Treasury (or the Secretary's designee) and to the customs officer for the district where the case arose. The Secretary must publish, once a week, whichever decisions the Secretary or the court picks, along with short summaries of all the other decisions.

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All decisions of the Court of International Trade shall be preserved and open to inspection. The court shall forward copies of each decision to the Secretary of the Treasury or his designee and to the appropriate customs officer for the district in which the case arose. The Secretary shall publish weekly such decisions as he or the court may designate and abstracts of all other decisions.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 900, § 255; renumbered § 257 and amended Pub. L. 91–271, title I, § 107, June 2, 1970, 84 Stat. 277; Pub. L. 96–417, title V, § 501(6), Oct. 10, 1980, 94 Stat. 1742.)

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1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 646 · 62 Stat. 900
1970Amended · Pub. L. 91-271 · 84 Stat. 277
1980Amended · Pub. L. 96-417 · 94 Stat. 1742

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