Title 28 — Judiciary and Judicial Procedure
Part V · Chapter 111 — General Provisions
§ 1654. Appearance personally or by counsel
Statutory text
In all courts of the United States the parties may plead and conduct their own cases personally or by counsel as, by the rules of such courts, respectively, are permitted to manage and conduct causes therein.
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.
Title 28, United States Code, section —
Pub. L. 80–646 · 62 Stat. 869
Enacted · 28 U.S.C. § 1654
June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 944
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 944
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Notes
Historical Revision Notes
1948 Act
Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 394 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 272, 36 Stat. 1164).
Words “as, by the rules of the said courts respectively, are permitted to manage and conduct causes therein,” after “counsel,” were omitted as surplusage. The revised section and section 2071 of this title effect no change in the procedure of the Tax Court before which certain accountants may be admitted as counsel for litigants under Rule 2 of the Tax Court.
Changes were made in phraseology.
1949 Act
This section restores in section 1654 of title 28, U.S.C., language of the original law.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1949—Act , inserted “as, by the rules of such courts, respectively, are permitted to manage and conduct causes therein”.
Credits
1948–1949 · 2 acts
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 944
- 1949May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 91, 63 Stat. 103.
Show as published
(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 944; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 91, 63 Stat. 103.)