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[CITE: 28USC128]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART I--ORGANIZATION OF COURTS
 
                       CHAPTER 5--DISTRICT COURTS
 
Sec. 128. Washington

    Washington is divided into two judicial districts to be known as the 
Eastern and Western Districts of Washington.

                            Eastern District

    (a) The Eastern District comprises the counties of Adams, Asotin, 
Benton, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, 
Kittitas, Klickitat, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, 
Walla Walla, Whitman, and Yakima.

        Court for the Eastern District shall be held at Spokane, Yakima, 
                               Walla Walla, and Richland.

                            Western District

    (b) The Western District comprises the counties of Clallam, Clark, 
Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Lewis, Mason, 
Pacific, Pierce, San Juan, Skagit, Skamania, Snohomish, Thurston, 
Wahkiakum, and Whatcom.

          Court for the Western District shall be held at Bellingham, 
                                  Seattle, and Tacoma.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 894; Pub. L. 87-699, Sept. 25, 1962, 
76 Stat. 598; Pub. L. 91-272, Sec. 4, June 2, 1970, 84 Stat. 297.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 193 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 
231, Sec. 112, 36 Stat. 1128; June 15, 1937, ch. 351, 50 Stat. 260; Dec. 
28, 1945, ch. 596, 59 Stat. 661).
    Words ``with the waters thereof,'' after the list of counties in 
each division, were omitted as unnecessary, and in view of the absence 
of such words in most similar sections relating to other States.
    A provision relating to the maintenance of offices by the clerks 
were omitted as covered by section 751 of this title.
    Provisions that the counties in both divisions of the eastern 
district included all Indian reservations in such counties and that the 
counties in both divisions of the western district included all Indian 
reservations in such counties were omitted as surplusage. (See Reviser's 
Note under section 114 of this title.)
    Pend Oreille County of the northern division of the eastern district 
and Grays Harbor of the southern division of the western district were 
created since the enactment of the Judicial Code.
    Changes in arrangement and phraseology were made.


                               Amendments

    1970--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 91-272, Sec. 4(a), struck out provisions 
which had divided Eastern District into a Northern Division and a 
Southern Division.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 91-272, Sec. 4(b), struck out provisions which 
had divided Western District into a Northern Division and a Southern 
Division.
    1962--Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 87-699 provided for holding court at 
Richland.
