Title 28 — Judiciary and Judicial Procedure
Part I · Chapter 1 — Supreme Court
§ 4. Precedence of associate justices
Statutory text
Associate justices shall have precedence according to the seniority of their commissions. Justices whose commissions bear the same date shall have precedence according to seniority in age.
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. § 4
(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 869.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 869.)
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Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 322 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 216, 36 Stat. 1152).
Minor changes in phraseology were made.
Credits
(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 869.)