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PUBLIC LAW 85-755-AUG. 25, 1958

[72 S T A T.

Public Law 85-755 August 25, 1958 [H. R. 7866]

AN ACT rp^ amend title 28, United States Code, relating to the Court of Customs and P a t e n t Appeals.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the to^ ° "* * d°V ^"nt ^'^^i^d States of America in Congress assembled, That section 211 of a^ A^eais. title 28 of the United States Code is amended by inserting after the 62 Stat. 899. ^^.g^ Sentence thereof a new sentence as follows: "Such court is hereby declared to be a court established under article III of the Constitution uscprec. Title 1. of the United States." SEO, 2. Section 291 of title 28 of the United States Code, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "§291. Circuit judges " (a) The Chief Justice of the United States may designate and assign temporarily any circuit judge to act as circuit judge in another circuit upon presentation of a certificate of necessity by the chief judge or circuit justice of the circuit where the need arises. "(b) The Chief Justice of the United States may designate and assign temporarily any circuit judge to serve as a judge of the Court of Claims or the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals upon presentation to him of a certificate of necessity by the chief judge of the court in which the need arises. "(c) The chief judge of a circuit or the circuit justice may, in the public interest, designate and assign temporarily any circuit judge within the circuit, including a judge designated and assigned to temporary duty therein, to hold a district court in any district within the circuit." SEC. 3. Section 292 of title 28 of the United States Code, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "§ 292. District judges " (a) The chief judge of a circuit may designate and assign one or more district judges within the circuit to sit upon the court of appeals or a division thereof whenever the business of that court so requires. Such designations or assignments shall be in conformity with the rules or orders of the court of appeals of the circuit. " (b) The chief judge of a circuit may, in the public interest, designate and assign temporarily any district judge of the circuit to hold a district court in any district within the circuit. "(c) The Chief Justice of the United States may designate and assign temporarily a district judge of one circuit for service in another circuit, either in a district court or court of appeals, upon presentation of a certificate of necessity by the chief judge or circuit justice of the circuit wherein the need arises. " (d) The Chief Justice of the United States may designate and assign temporarily any district judge to serve as a judge of the Court of Claims, the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals or the Customs Court upon presentation to him of a certificate of necessity by the chief judge of the court in which the need arises." SEC. 4. Section 293 of title 28 of the United States Code, as amended is amended to read as follows: "§ 293. Judges of other courts " (a) The Chief Justice of the United States may designate and assign temporarily any judge of the Court of Claims or the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals to serve, respectively, as a judge of the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals or the Court of Claims upon presentation of a certificate of necessity by the chief judge of the court

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