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Title 28 — Judiciary and Judicial Procedure

Part V · Chapter 133 — Review—Miscellaneous Provisions

§ 2113. Definition

Statutory text

For purposes of this chapter, the terms “State court”, “State courts”, and “highest court of a State” include the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

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. District of Columbia Court Reform and Criminal Procedure Act of 1970

    Pub. L. 91–358 title I § 172(a)(2)(A) · 84 Stat. 473

    Enacted · 28 U.S.C. § 2113

    (Added Pub. L. 91–358, title I, § 172(a)(2)(A), July 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 590.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Added Pub. L. 91–358, title I, § 172(a)(2)(A), July 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 590.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (A) Chapter 133 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: “§ 2113. Definition “For purposes of this chapter, the terms ‘State court’, ‘State courts’, and ‘highest court of a State’ include the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.”

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective the first day of the seventh calendar month which begins after , see section 199(a) of Pub. L. 91–358, set out as an Effective Date of 1970 Amendment note under section 1257 of this title.

Credits

(Added Pub. L. 91–358, title I, § 172(a)(2)(A), , 84 Stat. 590.)

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