Pub. L. 102-572, tit. IX, sec. 910

SUBPOENAS AND INCIDENTAL POWERS.

EnactedYear: 1992Length: 238 wordsOfficial source
SEC. 910. SUBPOENAS AND INCIDENTAL POWERS. (a) In General.— Section 2521 of title 28, United States Code, is amended— (1) by amending the section caption to read as follows: “§2521. Subpoenas and incidental powers”; (2) by inserting “(a)” before “Subpoenas requiring”; and (3) by adding at the end the following new subsections: “(b) The United States Court of Federal Claims shall have power to punish by fine or imprisonment, at its discretion, such contempt of its authority as— 106 STAT. 4520 “(1) misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice; “(2) misbehavior of any of its officers in their official transactions; or “(3) disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command. “(c) The United States Court of Federal Claims shall have such assistance in the carrying out of its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command as is available to a court of the United States. The United States marshal for any district in which the Court of Federal Claims is sitting shall, when requested by the chief judge of the Court of Federal Claims, attend any session of the Court of Federal Claims in such district.”. (b) Conforming Amendment.— The table of sections for chapter 165 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by amending the item relating to section 2521 to read as follows: “2521. Subpoenas and incidental powers.”.