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[CITE: 28USC610]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                 PART III--COURT OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
 
        CHAPTER 41--ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF UNITED STATES COURTS
 
Sec. 610. Courts defined

    As used in this chapter the word ``courts'' includes the courts of 
appeals and district courts of the United States, the United States 
District Court for the District of the Canal Zone, the District Court of 
Guam, the District Court of the Virgin Islands, the United States Court 
of Federal Claims, and the Court of International Trade.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 915; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, Sec. 44, 
65 Stat. 725; Pub. L. 85-508, Sec. 12(e), July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 348; 
Pub. L. 95-598, title II, Sec. 226, Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2665; Pub. L. 
96-417, title V, Sec. 501(15), Oct. 10, 1980, 94 Stat. 1742; Pub. L. 97-
164, title I, Sec. 120(a), Apr. 2, 1982, 96 Stat. 33; Pub. L. 102-572, 
title IX, Sec. 902(b)(1), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4516.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 450 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 
231, Sec. 308, as added Aug. 7, 1939, ch. 501, Sec. 1, 53 Stat. 1223).
    Words ``and the United States Court for China'' were omitted. See 
reviser's note under section 411 of this title.
    Provisions making this chapter and sections 332 and 333 of this 
title expressly applicable to the Court of Appeals for the District of 
Columbia were omitted as covered by ``courts of appeals.'' (See section 
41 of this title and reviser's notes under such section and section 44 
of this title.)
    A definition of ``continental United States'' as ``the States of the 
Union and the District of Columbia'' is omitted as unnecessary. (See 
reviser's note under section 333 of this title.)
    The term ``district courts in the United States'' in this section 
includes the District Court for the District of Columbia. (See section 
88 of this title.)
    Other provisions of section 450 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., are 
incorporated in sections 333 and 604 of this title.
    The phrase ``all other courts of the United States established by 
Act of Congress'' was added to provide for future growth of the Federal 
judicial system. [See Senate Revision Amendment below.]
    Changes in arrangement and phraseology were made.


                        Senate Revision Amendment

    Those provisions of this section which related to the Tax Court were 
eliminated by Senate amendment. See 80th Congress Senate Report No. 
1559.


                               Amendments

    1992--Pub. L. 102-572 substituted ``United States Court of Federal 
Claims'' for ``United States Claims Court''.
    1982--Pub. L. 97-164 substituted ``the United States Claims Court'' 
for ``the Court of Claims, the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals''.
    1980--Pub. L. 96-417 redesignated the Customs Court as the Court of 
International Trade.
    1978--Pub. L. 95-598 directed the amendment of section by 
substituting ``, district courts, and bankruptcy courts'' for ``and 
district courts'', which amendment did not become effective pursuant to 
section 402(b) of Pub. L. 95-598, as amended, set out as an Effective 
Date note preceding section 101 of Title 11, Bankruptcy.
    1958--Pub. L. 85-508 struck out provisions which included District 
Court for Territory of Alaska within definition of court. See section 
81A of this title which establishes a United States District Court for 
the State of Alaska.
    1951--Act Oct. 31, 1951, inserted reference to the District Court of 
Guam.


                    Effective Date of 1992 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 102-572 effective Oct. 29, 1992, see section 
911 of Pub. L. 102-572, set out as a note under section 171 of this 
title.


                    Effective Date of 1982 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 97-164 effective Oct. 1, 1982, see section 402 
of Pub. L. 97-164, set out as a note under section 171 of this title.


                    Effective Date of 1980 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 96-417 effective Nov. 1, 1980, and applicable 
with respect to civil actions pending on or commenced on or after such 
date, see section 701(a) of Pub. L. 96-417, set out as a note under 
section 251 of this title.


                    Effective Date of 1958 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 85-508 effective Jan. 3, 1959, on admission of 
Alaska into the Union pursuant to Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 
81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, 
see notes set out under section 81A of this title and preceding section 
21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

  Termination of United States District Court for the District of the 
                               Canal Zone

    For termination of the United States District Court for the District 
of the Canal Zone at end of the ``transition period'', being the 30-
month period beginning Oct. 1, 1979, and ending midnight Mar. 31, 1982, 
see Paragraph 5 of Article XI of the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977 and 
sections 2101 and 2201 to 2203 of Pub. L. 96-70, title II, Sept. 27, 
1979, 93 Stat. 493, formerly classified to sections 3831 and 3841 to 
3843, respectively, of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 613, 963, 1631 of this 
title; title 5 sections 5584, 5595, 5596, 8331, 8347, 8402.
