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[CITE: 28USC1442a]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART IV--JURISDICTION AND VENUE
 
     CHAPTER 89--DISTRICT COURTS; REMOVAL OF CASES FROM STATE COURTS
 
Sec. 1442a. Members of armed forces sued or prosecuted

    A civil or criminal prosecution in a court of a State of the United 
States against a member of the armed forces of the United States on 
account of an act done under color of his office or status, or in 
respect to which he claims any right, title, or authority under a law of 
the United States respecting the armed forces thereof, or under the law 
of war, may at any time before the trial or final hearing thereof be 
removed for trial into the district court of the United States for the 
district where it is pending in the manner prescribed by law, and it 
shall thereupon be entered on the docket of the district court, which 
shall proceed as if the cause had been originally commenced therein and 
shall have full power to hear and determine the cause.

(Added Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, Sec. 19(a), 70A Stat. 626.)


                               Derivation

    Section was from the Uniform Code of Military Justice, act May 5, 
1950, ch. 169, Sec. 9, 64 Stat. 146, which was based on Article 117, 
Articles of War, act June 4, 1920, ch. 227, subch. II, Sec. 1, 41 Stat. 
811, as amended June 24, 1948, ch. 625, title II, Sec. 242, 62 Stat. 
642.
