§ 288e. Intervention or appearance

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1978

   An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and for other purposes

   Pub. L. 95–521 title VII § 706 · 92 Stat. 1824

   Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 288e

   (Pub. L. 95–521, title VII, § 706, Oct. 26, 1978, 92 Stat. 1880.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Pub. L. 95–521, title VII, § 706, Oct. 26, 1978, 92 Stat. 1880.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 706. intervention or appearance (a) When directed to do so pursuant to section 703(c), the Counsel shall intervene or appear as amicus curiae in the name of the Senate, or in the name of an officer, committee, subcommittee, or chair man of a committee or subcommittee of the Senate in any legal action or proceeding pending in any court of the United States or of a State or political subdivision thereof in which the powers and responsibilities of Congress under the Constitution of the United States are placed in issue. The Counsel shall be authorized to intervene only if standing to intervene exists under section 2 of article III of the Constitution of USC prec. title 1. Notification. the United States. (b) The Counsel shall notify the Joint Leadership Group of any legal action or proceeding in which the Counsel is of the opinion that intervention or appearance as amicus curiae under subsection (a) is in the interest of the Senate. Such notification shall contain a description of the legal action or proceeding together with the reasons that the Counsel is of the opinion that intervention or appearance as amicus Publication in Congressional Record. curiae is in the interest of the Senate. The Joint Leadership Group shall cause said notification to be published in the Congressional Record for the Senate. (c) The Counsel shall limit any intervention or appearance as amicus curiae in an action or proceeding to issues relating to the powers and responsibilities of Congress.

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