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28 U.S.C. § 47 — Disqualification of trial judge to hear appeal
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No judge shall hear or determine an appeal from the decision of a case or issue tried by him.
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No judge shall hear or determine an appeal from the decision of a case or issue tried by him.
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**(a)** The President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, circuit judges for the several circuits as follows: CircuitsNumber ofJudges District of Columbia11 First6 Second13 Third14 Fourth15 Fifth17 Sixth16 Seventh11 Eighth11 Ninth29 Tenth12 Eleventh12 Federal12.
**(b)** Circuit judges shall hold office during good behavior.
**(c)** Except in the District of Columbia, each circuit judge shall be a resident of the circuit for which appointed at the time of his appointment and thereafter while in active service. While in active service, each circuit judge of the Federal judicial circuit appointed after the effective date of the Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982, and the chief judge of the Federal judicial circuit, whenever appointed, shall reside within fifty miles of the District of Columbia. In each circuit (other than the Federal judicial circuit) there shall be at least one circuit judge in regular active service appointed from the residents of each state 11 So in original. Probably should be capitalized. in that circuit.
**(d)** Each circuit judge shall receive a salary at an annual rate determined under section 225 of the Federal Salary Act of 1967 ([2 U.S.C. 351–361](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section351–361&num=0&edition=prelim)), as adjusted by [section 461 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section461&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a)** The courts of appeals shall hold regular sessions at the places listed below, and at such other places within the respective circuit as each court may designate by rule. CircuitsPlaces District of ColumbiaWashington. FirstBoston. SecondNew York. ThirdPhiladelphia. FourthRichmond, Asheville. FifthNew Orleans, Fort Worth, Jackson. SixthCincinnati. SeventhChicago. EighthSt. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Paul. NinthSan Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle. TenthDenver, Wichita, Oklahoma City. EleventhAtlanta, Jacksonville, Montgomery. FederalDistrict of Columbia, and in any other place listed above as the court by rule directs.
**(b)** Each court of appeals may hold special sessions at any place within its circuit as the nature of the business may require, and upon such notice as the court orders. The court may transact any business at a special session which it might transact at a regular session.
**(c)** Any court of appeals may pretermit any regular session of court at any place for insufficient business or other good cause.
**(d)** The times and places of the sessions of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit shall be prescribed with a view to securing reasonable opportunity to citizens to appear before the court with as little inconvenience and expense to citizens as is practicable.
**(e)** Each court of appeals may hold special sessions at any place within the United States outside the circuit as the nature of the business may require and upon such notice as the court orders, upon a finding by either the chief judge of the court of appeals (or, if the chief judge is unavailable, the most senior available active judge of the court of appeals) or the judicial council of the circuit that, because of emergency conditions, no location within the cir
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**(a)** There shall be in each circuit a court of appeals, which shall be a court of record, known as the United States Court of Appeals for the circuit.
**(b)** Each court of appeals shall consist of the circuit judges of the circuit in regular active service. The circuit justice and justices or judges designated or assigned shall be competent to sit as judges of the court.
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**(a)**
(1) The chief judge of the circuit shall be the circuit judge in regular active service who is senior in commission of those judges who—
(A) are sixty-four years of age or under;
(B) have served for one year or more as a circuit judge; and
(C) have not served previously as chief judge.
(2)
(A) In any case in which no circuit judge meets the qualifications of paragraph (1), the youngest circuit judge in regular active service who is sixty-five years of age or over and who has served as circuit judge for one year or more shall act as the chief judge.
(B) In any case under subparagraph (A) in which there is no circuit judge in regular active service who has served as a circuit judge for one year or more, the circuit judge in regular active service who is senior in commission and who has not served previously as chief judge shall act as the chief judge.
(3)
(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (C), the chief judge of the circuit appointed under paragraph (1) shall serve for a term of seven years and shall serve after expiration of such term until another judge is eligible under paragraph (1) to serve as chief judge of the circuit.
(B) Except as provided in subparagraph (C), a circuit judge acting as chief judge under subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (2) shall serve until a judge has been appointed who meets the qualifications under paragraph (1).
(C) No circuit judge may serve or act as chief judge of the circuit after attaining the age of seventy years unless no other circuit judge is qualified to serve as chief judge of the circuit under paragraph (1) or is qualified to act as chief judge under paragraph (2).
**(b)** The chief judge shall have precedence and preside at any session of the court which he attends. Other circuit judge
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TITLE 28—JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
§ 47
(c) Cases and controversies shall be heard and
determined by a court or panel of not more than
three judges (except that the United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may sit
in panels of more than three judges if its rules
so provide), unless a hearing or rehearing before
the court in banc is ordered by a majority of the
circuit judges of the circuit who are in regular
active service. A court in banc shall consist of
all circuit judges in regular active service, or
such number of judges as may be prescribed in
accordance with section 6 of Public Law 95–486
(92 Stat. 1633), except that any senior circuit
judge of the circuit shall be eligible (1) to par-
ticipate, at his election and upon designation
and assignment pursuant to section 294(c) of this
title and the rules of the circuit, as a member of
an in banc court reviewing a decision of a panel
of which such judge was a member, or (2) to con-
tinue to participate in the decision of a case or
controversy that was heard or reheard by the
court in banc at a time when such judge was in
regular active service.
(d) A majority of the number of judges author-
ized to constitute a court or panel thereof, as
provided in paragraph (c), shall constitute a
quorum.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 871; Pub. L. 88–176,
§ 1(b), Nov. 13, 1963, 77 Stat. 331; Pub. L. 95–486,
§ 5(a), (b), Oct. 20, 1978, 92 Stat. 1633; Pub. L.
97–164, title I, § 103, title II, § 205, Apr. 2, 1982, 96
Stat. 25, 53; Pub. L. 104–175, § 1, Aug. 6, 1996, 110
Stat. 1556.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Based in part on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 212 (Mar.
3, 1911, ch. 231, § 117, 36 Stat. 1131).
Subsections (a)–(c) authorize the establishment of di-
visions
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