28 U.S.C. § 291 — Circuit judges

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 646 to r/title-28-JUDICIARY-AND-JUDICIAL-PROCEDURE · 87 words · no verdicts yet

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Circuit judges can be temporarily sent to help out in another circuit, or assigned to hold district court within their own circuit, whenever it serves the public interest.

(a) The Chief Justice of the United States may temporarily assign a circuit judge to serve as a circuit judge in a different circuit, if the public interest calls for it and the other circuit's chief judge or circuit justice asks for the help. (b) The chief judge of a circuit, or that circuit's circuit justice, may temporarily assign any circuit judge within that circuit — including a judge who is already there on a temporary assignment — to hold district court in any district inside that circuit, if the public interest calls for it.

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(a)

The Chief Justice of the United States may, in the public interest, designate and assign temporarily any circuit judge to act as circuit judge in another circuit upon request by the chief judge or circuit justice of such circuit.

(b)

The chief judge of a circuit or the circuit justice may, in the public interest, designate and assign temporarily any circuit judge within the circuit, including a judge designated and assigned to temporary duty therein, to hold a district court in any district within the circuit.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 900; July 28, 1953, ch. 253, § 2, 67 Stat. 226; Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1263, § 39(b), 68 Stat. 1240; July 9, 1956, ch. 517, § 1(a), 70 Stat. 497; Pub. L. 85–755, § 2, Aug. 25, 1958, 72 Stat. 848; Pub. L. 95–598, title II, § 202, Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2660; Pub. L. 97–164, title I, § 108, Apr. 2, 1982, 96 Stat. 28; Pub. L. 102–572, title I, § 104, Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4507.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 646 · 62 Stat. 900
1953Amended · Act of July 28, 1953, ch. 253 · 67 Stat. 226
1954Amended · Act of Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1263 · 68 Stat. 1240
1956Amended · Act of July 9, 1956, ch. 517 · 70 Stat. 497
1958Amended · Pub. L. 85-755 · 72 Stat. 848
1978Amended · Pub. L. 95-598 · 92 Stat. 2660
1982Amended · Pub. L. 97-164 · 96 Stat. 28
1992Amended · Pub. L. 102-572 · 106 Stat. 4507

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 646 on 1948-06-25.

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