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28 U.S.C. § 672Marshal

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 646 to r/title-28-JUDICIARY-AND-JUDICIAL-PROCEDURE · 246 words · no verdicts yet

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This section authorizes the Supreme Court to appoint a marshal and staff. It lists the marshal’s duties, including serving the Court, managing property and funds, paying specified expenses, and overseeing Supreme Court Police.

(a) The Supreme Court may appoint a marshal, remove the marshal, and set the marshal’s pay. (b) With the Chief Justice’s approval, the marshal may appoint needed assistants, other employees who attend the Court, and needed custodial employees, and set their pay. (c) The marshal must: (1) attend the Court’s sessions; (2) serve and carry out every process and order issued by the Court or one of its members; (3) take charge of United States property used by the Court or its members; (4) pay money appropriated for work on the Supreme Court building and grounds under the Architect of the Capitol, using vouchers certified by the Architect; (5) pay money appropriated to buy, repair, bind, and rebind books, pamphlets, periodicals, and other publications, using vouchers certified by the Court’s librarian; (6) pay the Chief Justice’s, associate justices’, officers’, and employees’ salaries and distribute other appropriated money as the Chief Justice directs; (7) pay, using vouchers certified by the clerk, the costs of printing briefs and attorneys’ travel for people whose requests to proceed without paying fees in the Supreme Court were approved and for whom the Supreme Court appointed counsel; and (8) oversee the Supreme Court Police.
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(a)

The Supreme Court may appoint a marshal, who shall be subject to removal by the Court, and may fix his compensation.

(b)

The marshal may, with the approval of the Chief Justice of the United States, appoint and fix the compensation of necessary assistants and other employees to attend the Court, and necessary custodial employees.

(c)

The marshal shall:

(1)

Attend the Court at its sessions;

(2)

Serve and execute all process and orders issued by the Court or a member thereof;

(3)

Take charge of all property of the United States used by the Court or its members;

(4)

Disburse funds appropriated for work upon the Supreme Court building and grounds under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol upon certified vouchers submitted by the Architect;

(5)

Disburse funds appropriated for the purchase of books, pamphlets, periodicals and other publications, and for their repair, binding, and rebinding, upon vouchers certified by the librarian of the Court;

(6)

Pay the salaries of the Chief Justice, associate justices, and all officers and employees of the Court and disburse other funds appropriated for disbursement, under the direction of the Chief Justice;

(7)

Pay the expenses of printing briefs and travel expenses of attorneys in behalf of persons whose motions to appear in forma pauperis in the Supreme Court have been approved and when counsel have been appointed by the Supreme Court, upon vouchers certified by the clerk of the Court;

(8)

Oversee the Supreme Court Police.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 918; Pub. L. 88–279, § 2, Mar. 10, 1964, 78 Stat. 158; Pub. L. 97–390, § 2, Dec. 29, 1982, 96 Stat. 1958.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 646 · 62 Stat. 918
  • 1964Amended · Pub. L. 88-279 · 78 Stat. 158
  • 1982Amended · Pub. L. 97-390 · 96 Stat. 1958

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

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