§ 256. Trials at ports other than New York

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. 1970

   The Customs Courts Act of 1970

   Pub. L. 91–271 title I § 109 · 84 Stat. 273

   Enacted · 28 U.S.C. § 256

   Added Pub. L. 91–271, title I, § 109, June 2, 1970, 84 Stat. 277

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Added Pub. L. 91–271, title I, § 109, June 2, 1970, 84 Stat. 277

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 109. trials at ports other than new york There shall be a new section 256 of title 28 of the United States Code as follows: “§ 256. Trials at ports other than New York “(a) The chief judge may designate any judge or judges of the court to proceed, together with necessary assistants, to any port or to any place within the jurisdiction of the United States to preside at a trial or healing at the port or place. “(b) Upon application of a party or upon his own initiative, and upon a showing that the interests of economy, efficiency, and justice will be served, the chief judge may issue an order authorizing a judge of the court to preside in an evidentiary hearing in a foreign country whose laws do not prohibit such a hearing: Provided, however, That an interlocutory appeal may lie taken from such an order pursuant to the provisions of section 1541(b) of this title, subject to the discretion Ante, p. 275. of the Court, of Customs and Patent Appeals as set forth in that section.”

2. 1982

   Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982

   Pub. L. 97–164 title I § 107 · 96 Stat. 25

   Substituted · 28 U.S.C. § 256(b)

   Pub. L. 97–164 substituted “section 1292(d)(1) of this title, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may, in its discretion, consider the appeal” for “section 1541(b) of this title, subject to the discretion of the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals as set forth in that section”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97–164 substituted “section 1292(d)(1) of this title, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may, in its discretion, consider the appeal” for “section 1541(b) of this title, subject to the discretion of the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals as set forth in that section”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 107. interlocutory appeals from certain orders Section 256(b) of title 28, United States Code, is amended by striking out “section 1541(b)” and all that follows through “in that section.” and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “section 1292(d)(1) of this title, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may, in its discretion, consider the appeal.”.

   Effective date note
   Amendment by Pub. L. 97–164 effective Oct. 1, 1982, see section 402 of Pub. L. 97–164, set out as a note under section 171 of this title.

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