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[CITE: 28USC1345]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART IV--JURISDICTION AND VENUE
 
                CHAPTER 85--DISTRICT COURTS; JURISDICTION
 
Sec. 1345. United States as plaintiff

    Except as otherwise provided by Act of Congress, the district courts 
shall have original jurisdiction of all civil actions, suits or 
proceedings commenced by the United States, or by any agency or officer 
thereof expressly authorized to sue by Act of Congress.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 933.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 41(1) (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 
231, Sec. 24, par. 1, 36 Stat. 1091; May 14, 1934, ch. 283, Sec. 1, 48 
Stat. 775; Aug. 21, 1937, ch. 726, Sec. 1, 50 Stat. 738; Apr. 20, 1940, 
ch. 117, 54 Stat. 143).
    Other provisions of section 41(1) of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., are 
incorporated in sections 1331, 1332, 1341, 1342, 1354, and 1359 of this 
title.
    Words ``civil actions, suits or proceedings'' were substituted for 
``suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity'' in view of Rules 
2 and 81(a)(7) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
    Word ``agency'' was inserted in order that this section shall apply 
to actions by agencies of the Government and to conform with special 
acts authorizing such actions. (See definitive section 451 of this 
title.)
    The phrase ``Except as otherwise provided by Act of Congress,'' at 
the beginning of the section was inserted to make clear that 
jurisdiction exists generally in district courts in the absence of 
special provisions conferring it elsewhere.
    Changes were made in phraseology.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 12 sections 1452, 1819, 2279aa-
14.
