Title 28 — Judiciary and Judicial Procedure
Part V · Chapter 117 — Evidence; Depositions
§ 1785. Subpoenas in multiparty, multiforum actions
Statutory text
When the jurisdiction of the district court is based in whole or in part upon section 1369 of this title, a subpoena for attendance at a hearing or trial may, if authorized by the court upon motion for good cause shown, and upon such terms and conditions as the court may impose, be served at any place within the United States, or anywhere outside the United States if otherwise permitted by law.
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.
Multiparty, Multiforum Trial Jurisdiction Act of 2002
Pub. L. 107–273 div. C title I § 11020(b)(4)(B)(i) · 116 Stat. 1758
Enacted · 28 U.S.C. § 1785
(Added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title I, § 11020(b)(4)(B)(i), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1828.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title I, § 11020(b)(4)(B)(i), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1828.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(i) Chapter 117 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: “§ 1785. Subpoenas in multiparty, multiforum actions “When the jurisdiction of the district court is based in whole or in part upon section 1369 of this title, a subpoena for attendance at a hearing or trial may, if authorized by the court upon motion for good cause shown, and upon such terms and conditions as the court may impose, be served at any place within the United States, or anywhere outside the United States if otherwise permitted by law.”.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 1785, act June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 950, provided a privilege against self-incrimination on examination under letters rogatory, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 88–619, § 12(a), , 78 Stat. 998. See section 1782(a) of this title.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section applicable to a civil action if the accident giving rise to the cause of action occurred on or after the 90th day after , see section 11020(c) of Pub. L. 107–273, set out as a note under section 1369 of this title.
Credits
(Added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title I, § 11020(b)(4)(B)(i), , 116 Stat. 1828.)