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[CITE: 28USC517]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART II--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
                    CHAPTER 31--THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
 
Sec. 517. Interests of United States in pending suits

    The Solicitor General, or any officer of the Department of Justice, 
may be sent by the Attorney General to any State or district in the 
United States to attend to the interests of the United States in a suit 
pending in a court of the United States, or in a court of a State, or to 
attend to any other interest of the United States.

(Added Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 4(c), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 613.)

                      Historical and Revision Notes
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                                                   Revised Statutes and
      Derivation               U.S. Code             Statutes at Large
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                       5 U.S.C. 316.              R.S. Sec.  367.
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                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 7 section 943; title 19 section 
1920; title 20 section 1082; title 42 sections 292j, 12651d.
