Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 99 Part 1.djvu/1121

 PUBLIC LAW 99-177—DEC. 12, 1985

99 STAT. 1099

under paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subsection (a) shall be reviewable by appeal directly to the Supreme Court of the United States. Any such appeal shall be taken by a notice of appeal filed within 10 days after such order is entered; and the jurisdictional statement shall be filed within 30 days after such order is entered. No stay of an order issued pursuant to an action brought under p a r g ^ a p h (1), (2), or (3) of subsection (a) shall be issued by a single Justice of the Supreme Court. (c) EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION.—It shall be the duty of the District Court for the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court of the United States to advance on the docket and to expedite to the greatest possible extent the disposition of any matter brought under subsection (a). (d) NONCOMPLIANCE WITH SEQUESTRATION PROCEDURES.—

(1) If it is finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that an order issued by the President under section 2520?) for any fiscal year— (A) does not reduce automatic spending increases under any program specified in section 257(1) to the extent that such increases are required to be reduced by part C of this title (or reduces such increases by a greater extent than is so required), (B) does not sequester the amount of new budget authority, new loan guarantee commitments, new direct loan obligations, or spending authority which is required to be sequestered by such part (or sequesters more than that amount) with respect to any program, project, activity, or account, or (C) does not reduce obligation limitations by the amount by which such limitations are required to be reduced under such part (or reduces such limitations by more than that amount) with respect to any program, project, activity, or account, the President shall, within 20 days after such determination is made, revise the order in accordance with such determination. (2) If the order issued by the President under section 252(b) for any fiscal year— (A) does not reduce any automatic spending increase to the extent that such increase is required to be reduced by part C of this title, (B) does not sequester any amount of new budget authority, new loan guarantee commitments, new direct loan obligations, or spending authority which is required to be sequestered by such part, or (C) does not reduce any obligation limitation by the amount by which such limitation is required to be reduced under such part, on the claim or defense that the constitutional powers of the President prevent such sequestration or reduction or permit the avoidance of such sequestration or reduction, and such claim or defense is finally determined by the Supreme Court of the United States to be valid, then the entire order issued pursuant to section 252(b) for such fiscal year shall be null and void. (e) TIMING OF REUEF.—No order of any court granting declaratory or injunctive relief from the order of the President issued under section 252, including but not limited to relief permitting or requiring the expenditure of funds sequestered by such order, shall take

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