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Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions

Chapter 20 — Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability

§ 2169. Abstention

Statutory text

Nothing in this subchapter prevents a district court in the interests of justice from abstaining from hearing a particular proceeding arising in or related to a case under this subchapter.

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. Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act

    Pub. L. 114–187 title III § 309 · 130 Stat. 549

    Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 2169

    (Pub. L. 114–187, title III, § 309, June 30, 2016, 130 Stat. 583.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 114–187, title III, § 309, June 30, 2016, 130 Stat. 583.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 309. ABSTENTION.   Nothing in this title prevents a district court in the interests of justice from abstaining from hearing a particular proceeding arising in or related to a case under this title.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 114–187, title III, § 309, , 130 Stat. 583.)

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