Volume 73 · 565
Public Law 86–282
To amend section 1870 of title 28, United States Code, to authorize the district courts to allow additional peremptory challenges in civil cases to multiple plaintiffs as well as multiple defendants.
Approved September 16, 1959
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 1870 of title 28, United States Code, to authorize the district courts to allow additional peremptory challenges in civil cases to multiple plaintiffs as well as multiple defendants.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1870 of title 28, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
Ҥ 1870. Challenges
“In civil cases, each party shall be entitled to three peremptory challenges. Several defendants or several plaintiffs may be considered as a single party for the purposes of making challenges, or the court may allow additional peremptory challenges and permit them to be exercised separately or jointly.
“All challenges for cause or favor, whether to the array or panel or to individual jurors, shall be determined by the court.”
Approved September 16, 1959.