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Title 28 — Judiciary and Judicial Procedure

Part IV · Chapter 89 — District Courts; Removal of Cases from State Courts

§ 1444. Foreclosure action against United States

Statutory text

Any action brought under section 2410 of this title against the United States in any State court may be removed by the United States to the district court of the United States for the district and division in which the action is pending.

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. Title 28, United States Code, section —

    Pub. L. 80–646 · 62 Stat. 869

    Enacted · 28 U.S.C. § 1444

    June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 938

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 938

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Notes

Historical and Revision Notes
1948 Act

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 903 (Mar. 4, 1931, ch. 515, § 3, 46 Stat. 1529).

The procedural provisions of section 903 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., were omitted as covered by section 1446 of this title.

Changes were made in phraseology.

1949 Act

This section corrects typographical errors in section 1444 of title 28, U.S.C.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1949—Act , inserted “court” between “State” and “may”, and substituted “division” for “divisions”.

Credits

1948–1949 · 2 acts
  1. 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 938
  2. 1949May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 82, 63 Stat. 101.
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(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 938; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 82, 63 Stat. 101.)

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