Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 92 Part 2.djvu/1380

 92 STAT. 2660

PUBLIC LAW 95-598—NOV. 6, 1978 "(c) When hearing an appeal, a panel designated under subsection (a) of this section shall sit at a place convenient to the parties to the appeal.". (b) The table of chapters of part I of title 28 of the United States Code is amended by inserting immediately after the item relating to chapter 5 of such title the following: "6. Bankruptcy courts

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SEC. 202. Section 291(c) of title 28 of the United States Code is amended by inserting "or bankruptcy" immediately after "to hold a district". SEC. 203. Section 292(b) of title 28 of the United States Code is amended by inserting "or a bankruptcy court" immediately after "to hold a district court". SEC. 204. Section 292(d) of title 28 of the United States Code is amended— (1) by striking out "either"; (2) by inserting "bankruptcy court," immediately after "in a"; and (3) by inserting a comma immediately after "district court". SEC. 205. Section 293 of title 28 of the United States Code is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "(e)(1) The Chief Justice of the United States may designate and assign temporarily a bankruptcy judge of one circuit for service in a bankruptcy court in another circuit upon presentation of a certificate of necessity by the chief judge or circuit justice of the circuit wherein the need arises. "(2) The chief judge of a circuit may, in the public interest, designate and assign temporarily a bankruptcy judge of the circuit to hold a bankruptcy court in any district within the circuit.". SEC. 206. Section 294 of title 28 of the United States Code is amended— (1) in subsection (c), by deleting "or district" and inserting "district or bankruptcy judge"; and (2) in subsection (d), by striking out "or district judge" and inserting in lieu thereof ", district judge or bankruptcy judge". SEC. 207. Section 295 of title 28 of the United States Code is amended by striking out "or district" and inserting in lieu thereof "district, or bankruptcy". SEC. 208. Section 331 of title 28 of the United States Code is amended— (1) by striking out "and a district judge from each judicial circuit" in the first sentence of the first paragraph thereof and inserting "a district judge from each judicial circuit, and two bankruptcy judges" in lieu thereof; (2) by inserting "circuit and district" in the second paragraph— (A) immediately after "amended section the"; (B) immediately after "for one year, the"; and, (C) immediately after "two years and the"; (3) by inserting immediately after the second paragraph the following: "The bankruptcy judges to be summoned shall be chosen at large by all the bankruptcy judges. Each bankruptcy judge chosen shall serve as a member of the conference for three successive years, except that in the year following the effective date of this sentence the bankruptcy judges shall choose one bankruptcy judge to serve for two years.";

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