28 U.S.C. § 597 — Relationship with Department of Justice
submitted 48 years ago by Pub. L. 95-521 to r/title-28-JUDICIARY-AND-JUDICIAL-PROCEDURE · 149 words · no verdicts yet
This section generally requires the Justice Department to stop investigating or prosecuting a matter assigned to an independent counsel, while allowing certain written agreements and court presentations.
(a) When a matter is within an independent counsel’s prosecutorial jurisdiction or was accepted under section 594(e), the Department* of Justice, the Attorney General, and its officers and employees must suspend investigations and proceedings about it, except as section 594(d)(1) requires or as the independent counsel agrees in writing may continue.
(b) This chapter does not stop the Attorney General or Solicitor General from presenting legal arguments as an amicus curiae to a court about a case or proceeding in which an independent counsel officially participates, or an appeal of that case or proceeding.
Whenever a matter is in the prosecutorial jurisdiction of an independent counsel or has been accepted by an independent counsel under section 594(e), the Department* of Justice, the Attorney General, and all other officers and employees of the Department of Justice shall suspend all investigations and proceedings regarding such matter, except to the extent required by section 594(d)(1), and except insofar as such independent counsel agrees in writing that such investigation or proceedings may be continued by the Department of Justice.
Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the Attorney General or the Solicitor General from making a presentation as amicus curiae to any court as to issues of law raised by any case or proceeding in which an independent counsel participates in an official capacity or any appeal of such a case or proceeding.
Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 95–521, title VI, § 601(a), Oct. 26, 1978, 92 Stat. 1872; amended Pub. L. 97–409, § 2(a)(1)(A), Jan. 3, 1983, 96 Stat. 2039; Pub. L. 100–191, § 2, Dec. 15, 1987, 101 Stat. 1306.)
- 1978Enacted · Pub. L. 95-521 · 92 Stat. 1872
- 1983Amended · Pub. L. 97-409 · 96 Stat. 2039
- 1987Amended · Pub. L. 100-191 · 101 Stat. 1306
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 95-521 on 1978-10-26.
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