Volume 68
Public Law 83–682
To amend section 2201 of title 28, United States Code, to extend the Federal Declaratory Judgments Act to the Territory of Alaska.
Approved August 28, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 2201 of title 28, United States Code, to extend the Federal Declaratory Judgments Act to the Territory of Alaska.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the first sentence of section 2201 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the words “any court in the United States” the words “and the District Court for the Territory of Alaska”, so that the sentence will read as follows:
Ҥ 2201. Creation of remedy
“In a case of actual controversy within its jurisdiction, except with respect to Federal taxes, any court of the United States and the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, upon the filing of an appropriate pleading, may declare the rights and other legal relations of any interested party seeking such declaration, whether or not further relief is or could be sought.”
Approved August 28, 1954.