Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 20 — Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability
§ 2168. Selection of presiding judge
Statutory text
For cases in which the debtor is a territory, the Chief Justice of the United States shall designate a district court judge to sit by designation to conduct the case.
For cases in which the debtor is not a territory, and no motion for joint administration of the debtor’s case with the case of its affiliate territory has been filed or there is no case in which the affiliate territory is a debtor, the chief judge of the court of appeals for the circuit embracing the district in which the case is commenced shall designate a district court judge to conduct the case.
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.
Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act
Pub. L. 114–187 title III § 308 · 130 Stat. 549
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 2168
(Pub. L. 114–187, title III, § 308, June 30, 2016, 130 Stat. 582.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 114–187, title III, § 308, June 30, 2016, 130 Stat. 582.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 308. SELECTION OF PRESIDING JUDGE. (a) For cases in which the debtor is a territory, the Chief Justice of the United States shall designate a district court judge to sit by designation to conduct the case. (b) For cases in which the debtor is not a territory, and no motion for joint administration of the debtor’s case with the case of its affiliate territory has been filed or there is no case in which the affiliate territory is a debtor, the chief judge of the court of appeals for the circuit embracing the district in which the case is commenced shall designate a district court judge to conduct the case.
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