Volume 86
Public Law 92–415
To amend title 28, United States Code, section 1491, to authorize the Court of Claims to implement its judgments for compensation.
Approved August 29, 1972
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend title 28, United States Code, section 1491, to authorize the Court of Claims to implement its judgments for compensation.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the first paragraph of section 1491 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding thereto the following: “To provide an entire remedy and to complete the relief afforded by the judgment, the court may, as an incident of and collateral to any such judgment, issue orders directing restoration to office or position, placement in appropriate duty or retirement status, and correction of applicable records, and such orders may be issued to any appropriate official of the United States. In any ease within its jurisdiction, the court shall have the power to remand appropriate matters to any administrative or executive body or official with such direction as it may deem proper and just.”
Sec. 2.
This Act shall be applicable to all judicial proceedings pending on or instituted after the date of its enactment.
Approved August 29, 1972.