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28 U.S.C. § 255 — Three-judge trials
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**(a)** Upon application of any party to a civil action, or upon his own initiative, the chief judge of the Court of International Trade shall designate any three judges of the court to hear and determine any civil action which the chief judge finds: (1) raises an issue of the constitutionality of an Act of Congress, a proclamation of the President or an Executive order; or (2) has broad or significant implications in the administration or interpretation of the customs laws.
**(b)** A majority of the three judges designated may hear and determine the civil action and all questions pending therein.
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**(a)** Upon application of any party to a civil action, or upon his own initiative, the chief judge of the Court of International Trade shall designate any three judges of the court to hear and determine any civil action which the chief judge finds: (1) raises an issue of the constitutionality of an Act of Congress, a proclamation of the President or an Executive order; or (2) has broad or significant implications in the administration or interpretation of the customs laws.
**(b)** A majority of the three judges designated may hear and determine the civil action and all questions pending therein.
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**(a)** The chief judge may designate any judge or judges of the court to proceed, together with necessary assistants, to any port or to any place within the jurisdiction of the United States to preside at a trial or hearing at the port or place.
**(b)** Upon application of a party or upon his own initiative, and upon a showing that the interests of economy, efficiency, and justice will be served, the chief judge may issue an order authorizing a judge of the court to preside in an evidentiary hearing in a foreign country whose laws do not prohibit such a hearing: Provided, however, That an interlocutory appeal may be taken from such an order pursuant to the provisions of [section 1292(d)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1292/d/1&num=0&edition=prelim), and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may, in its discretion, consider the appeal.
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All decisions of the Court of International Trade shall be preserved and open to inspection. The court shall forward copies of each decision to the Secretary of the Treasury or his designee and to the appropriate customs officer for the district in which the case arose. The Secretary shall publish weekly such decisions as he or the court may designate and abstracts of all other decisions.
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**(a)** The President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, nine judges who shall constitute a court of record to be known as the United States Court of International Trade. Not more than five of such judges shall be from the same political party. The court is a court established under article III of the Constitution of the United States.
**(b)** The offices of the Court of International Trade shall be located in New York, New York.
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### Statutory Notes
Section 1518, acts June 10, 1890, ch. 407, § 12, 26 Stat. 136; May 27, 1908, ch. 205, § 3, 35 Stat. 406; Aug. 5, 1909, ch. 6, § 28, 36 Stat. 98; May 28, 1926, ch. 411, § 1, 44 Stat. 669; June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, § 518, 46 Stat. 737, related to the judges of the United States Customs Court: their appointment, salary, retirement, vacancies, and powers; the control of the fiscal affairs and of the clerical force of the court; and the division of the court. See sections 251 to 254, 456, 1581, 2071, 2639, and 2640 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure. Last sentence of section, relating to the transfer of unexpended appropriations for salaries to be available for expenditures for the same purposes, was omitted as executed.
Section 1519, act June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, § 519, 46 Stat. 739, related to publication of Customs Court’s decisions. See [section 255 of Title 28](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section255&num=0&edition=prelim), Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
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Except as otherwise provided in [section 255 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section255&num=0&edition=prelim), the judicial power of the Court of International Trade with respect to any action, suit or proceeding shall be exercised by a single judge, who may preside alone and hold a regular or special session of court at the same time other sessions are held by other judges.
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TITLE 28—JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
§ 254
This section contains a part of section 296 of title 28,
U.S.C., 1940 ed. Other provisions of such section are in-
corporated in sections 251, 252, 254, 456, 1581, 2071, 2639,
and 2640 of this title.
Provision respecting recommendations for appoint-
ment, promotions, or otherwise affecting such clerical
force, was omitted as unnecessary in view of section 871
of this title.
The second paragraph is partly new and conforms
with similar provisions of section 136(e) of this title, re-
lating to the chief judges of district courts.
The term ‘‘chief judge’’ was substituted for ‘‘pre-
siding judge.’’ (See Reviser’s Note under section 136 of
this title.)
Changes were made in phraseology and arrangement.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1996—Pub. L. 104–317 struck out ‘‘; precedence of
judges’’ after ‘‘chief judge’’ in section catchline and
struck out subsecs. (d) and (e) which read as follows:
‘‘(d) Whenever the chief judge is unable to perform
the duties of his office or the office is vacant, his pow-
ers and duties shall devolve upon the judge next in
precedence who is able to act, until such disability is
removed or another chief judge is appointed and duly
qualified.
‘‘(e) The chief judge shall have precedence and shall
preside at any session which he attends. Other judges
shall have precedence and shall preside according to
the seniority of their commissions. Judges whose com-
missions bear the same date shall have precedence ac-
cording to seniority in age.’’
1980—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–417 redesignated the Cus-
toms Court as the Court of International Trade.
1970—Pub. L. 91–271 reorganized existing provisions
into lettered subsecs. (a) to (e) and made minor changes
in phraseology.
1959—Pub. L.
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