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[CITE: 28USC2322]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART VI--PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS
 
CHAPTER 157--SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD ORDERS; ENFORCEMENT AND REVIEW
 
Sec. 2322. United States as party

    All actions specified in section 2321 of this title shall be brought 
by or against the United States.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 969.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 48 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, 
Sec. 211, 36 Stat. 1150; Oct. 22, 1913, ch. 32, 38 Stat. 219).
    Word ``actions'' was substituted for ``cases and proceedings'', in 
view of Rule 2 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
    A provision authorizing intervention by the United States was 
omitted. The United States, under the provisions of this section, is a 
necessary and indispensable original party, and hence intervention is 
unnecessary. (See Lambert Run Coal Co. v. Baltimore & O. R. Co., 1922, 
42 S.Ct. 349, 258 U.S. 377, 66 L.Ed. 671.)
