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[CITE: 38USC7265]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
              PART V--BOARDS, ADMINISTRATIONS, AND SERVICES
 
     CHAPTER 72--UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR VETERANS CLAIMS
 
                        SUBCHAPTER II--PROCEDURE
 
Sec. 7265. Contempt authority; assistance to the Court

    (a) The Court shall have power to punish by fine or imprisonment 
such contempt of its authority as--
        (1) misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto 
    as to obstruct the administration of justice;
        (2) misbehavior of any of its officers in their official 
    transactions; or
        (3) disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, 
    order, rule, decree, or command.

    (b) The Court shall have such assistance in the carrying out of its 
lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command as is available to 
a court of the United States. The United States marshal for a district 
in which the Court is sitting shall, if requested by the chief judge of 
the Court, attend any session of the Court in that district.

(Added Pub. L. 100-687, div. A, title III, Sec. 301(a), Nov. 18, 1988, 
102 Stat. 4116, Sec. 4065; renumbered Sec. 7265, Pub. L. 102-40, title 
IV, Sec. 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-40 renumbered section 4065 of this title as this 
section.
