Volume 48
Public Law 73–339
To provide, in case of the disability of senior circuit judges, for the exercise of their powers and the performance of their duties by the other circuit judges.
Approved May 23, 1934
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide, in case of the disability of senior circuit judges, for the exercise of their powers and the performance of their duties by the other circuit judges.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That in case the senior circuit judge of any circuit is unable because of illness or other cause to exercise any power given or to perform any duty imposed by law, such power or duty shall be exercised or performed by the other judges of that circuit in the order of the seniority of their respective commissions.
Approved, May 23, 1934.