Arkansas Legal Resource Navigator

28 U.S.C. § 526 — Authority of Attorney General to investigate United States attorneys, marshals, trustees, clerks of court, and others

Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities

28 U.S.C. § 526 — Authority of Attorney General to investigate United States attorneys, marshals, trustees, clerks of court, and others

**(a)** The Attorney General may investigate the official acts, records, and accounts of— (1) the United States attorneys, marshals, trustees, including trustees in cases under title 11; and (2) at the request and on behalf of the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, the clerks of the United States courts and of the district court of the Virgin Islands, probation officers, United States magistrate judges, and court reporters; for which purpose all the official papers, rec­ords, dockets, and accounts of these officers, without exception, may be examined by agents of the Attorney General at any time. **(b)** Appropriations for the examination of judicial officers are available for carrying out this section.

Source: Supplied U.S. Code snapshot — release unconfirmed · 28 U.S.C. § 526

Stored review status: release_metadata_unconfirmed. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.

Original supplied file — preserved unchanged

Download original Markdown file

File SHA-256: 2b1ff775e16d76f70fa2ecbae47d13c33778854b84e19779234b55092ae304d2. The original may include catalog metadata, neighboring provisions, or embedded records outside this collection's scope. Search shows only the selected federal record. Historical editions and unverified snapshots are not a statement of current law.

Authority boundary: historical or unconfirmed source not current law verified.

Open the recorded source website ↗

Record provenance

Stable record: federal_law:legal_authorities:record_usc_6acd5d44797a7a184f2c9c32
Source file: Laws/federal/codes/united-states-code/title-28/section-526-authority-of-attorney-general-to-investigate-united-states-attorneys-mar--a564bdff6a.md
Pages: Not recorded – Not recorded
Passage SHA-256: dc26eb17af03bd02e44cbc577834e60997be4b1ff211f663d5bf9941f3c4b728

Source location: Title 28, Chapter 31, § 526; chapter-031-the-attorney-general.md

Stored source content

**(a)** The Attorney General may investigate the official acts, records, and accounts of— (1) the United States attorneys, marshals, trustees, including trustees in cases under title 11; and (2) at the request and on behalf of the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, the clerks of the United States courts and of the district court of the Virgin Islands, probation officers, United States magistrate judges, and court reporters; for which purpose all the official papers, rec­ords, dockets, and accounts of these officers, without exception, may be examined by agents of the Attorney General at any time. **(b)** Appropriations for the examination of judicial officers are available for carrying out this section.

Cross-references

Connections may be documented source relationships, shared citations or nearby passages. Each explains its basis; a connection alone does not establish applicability to your situation.

Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities

28 U.S.C. § 581 — United States trustees

**(a)** The Attorney General shall appoint one United States trustee for each of the following regions composed of Federal judicial districts (without regard to section 451): (1) The judicial districts established for the States of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. (2) The judicial districts established for the States of Connecticut, New York, and Vermont. (3) The judicial districts established for the States of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. (4) The judicial districts established for the States of Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia and for the District of Columbia. (5) The judicial districts established for the States of Louisiana and Mississippi. (6) The Northern District of Texas and the Eastern District of Texas. (7) The Southern District of Texas and the Western District of Texas. (8) The judicial districts established for the States of Kentucky and Tennessee. (9) The judicial districts established for the States of Michigan and Ohio. (10) The Central District of Illinois and the Southern District of Illinois; and the judicial districts established for the State of Indiana. (11) The Northern District of Illinois; and the judicial districts established for the State of Wisconsin. (12) The judicial districts established for the States of Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, and South Dakota. (13) The judicial districts established for the States of Arkansas, Nebraska, and Missouri. (14) The District of Arizona. (15) The Southern District of California; and the judicial districts established for the State of Hawaii, and for Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. (16) The Central District of California. (17) The Eastern District of California and the Northern District of Cal

Source: Supplied U.S. Code snapshot — release unconfirmed · 28 U.S.C. § 581

Stored review status: release_metadata_unconfirmed. Explicit cross-reference supplied in source Markdown; currentness and applicability require review.

Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities

11 U.S.C. § 101 — Definitions

In this title the following definitions shall apply: (1) The term “accountant” means accountant authorized under applicable law to practice public accounting, and includes professional accounting association, corporation, or partnership, if so authorized. (2) The term “affiliate” means— (A) entity that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote, 20 percent or more of the outstanding voting securities of the debtor, other than an entity that holds such securities— (i) in a fiduciary or agency capacity without sole discretionary power to vote such securities; or (ii) solely to secure a debt, if such entity has not in fact exercised such power to vote; (B) corporation 20 percent or more of whose outstanding voting securities are directly or indirectly owned, controlled, or held with power to vote, by the debtor, or by an entity that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote, 20 percent or more of the outstanding voting securities of the debtor, other than an entity that holds such securities— (i) in a fiduciary or agency capacity without sole discretionary power to vote such securities; or (ii) solely to secure a debt, if such entity has not in fact exercised such power to vote; (C) person whose business is operated under a lease or operating agreement by a debtor, or person substantially all of whose property is operated under an operating agreement with the debtor; or (D) entity that operates the business or substantially all of the property of the debtor under a lease or operating agreement. (3) The term “assisted person” means any person whose debts consist primarily of consumer debts and the value of whose nonexempt property is less than $150,000.11 See Adjustment of Dollar Amounts not

Source: Supplied U.S. Code snapshot — release unconfirmed · 11 U.S.C. § 101

Stored review status: release_metadata_unconfirmed. Explicit cross-reference supplied in source Markdown; currentness and applicability require review.

Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities

28 U.S.C. § 631 — Appointment and tenure

**(a)** The judges of each United States district court and the district courts of the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands shall appoint United States magistrate judges in such numbers and to serve at such locations within the judicial districts as the Judicial Conference may determine under this chapter. In the case of a magistrate judge appointed by the district court of the Virgin Islands, Guam, or the Northern Mariana Islands, this chapter shall apply as though the court appointing such a magistrate judge were a United States district court. Where there is more than one judge of a district court, the appointment, whether an original appointment or a reappointment, shall be by the concurrence of a majority of all the judges of such district court, and when there is no such concurrence, then by the chief judge. Where the conference deems it desirable, a magistrate judge may be designated to serve in one or more districts adjoining the district for which he is appointed. Such a designation shall be made by the concurrence of a majority of the judges of each of the district courts involved and shall specify the duties to be performed by the magistrate judge in the adjoining district or districts. **(b)** No individual may be appointed or re­appointed to serve as a magistrate judge under this chapter unless: (1) He has been for at least five years a member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Territory of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the Virgin Islands of the United States, except that an individual who does not meet the bar membership requirements of this paragraph may be appointed and serve as a part-time magistrate judge if the appo

Source: Supplied U.S. Code snapshot — release unconfirmed · 28 U.S.C. § 631

Stored review status: release_metadata_unconfirmed. Explicit cross-reference supplied in source Markdown; currentness and applicability require review.

Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities

28 U.S.C. § 526 — Authority of Attorney General to inves-

Page 205 TITLE 28—JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE § 526 ‘‘(A) reestablishing the operational capability of an office or facility that has been damaged or de- stroyed as the result of any domestic or inter- national terrorism incident; ‘‘(B) providing support to counter, investigate, or prosecute domestic or international terrorism, in- cluding, without limitation, paying rewards in con- nection with these activities; and ‘‘(C) conducting terrorism threat assessments of Federal agencies and their facilities; and ‘‘(2) to reimburse any department or agency of the Federal Government for any costs incurred in connec- tion with detaining in foreign countries individuals accused of acts of terrorism that violate the laws of the United States. ‘‘(b) NO EFFECT ON PRIOR APPROPRIATIONS.—Sub- section (a) shall not be construed to affect the amount or availability of any appropriation to the Counterterrorism Fund made before the date of the en- actment of this Act [Oct. 26, 2001].’’ Pub. L. 104–19, title III, July 27, 1995, 109 Stat. 249, provided that: ‘‘There is hereby established the Counterterrorism Fund which shall remain available without fiscal year limitation. For necessary expenses, as determined by the Attorney General, $34,220,000, to remain available until expended, is appropriated to the Counterterrorism Fund to reimburse any Department of Justice organization for the costs incurred in rees- tablishing the operational capability of an office or fa- cility which has been damaged or destroyed as the re- sult of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City or any domestic or inter- national terrorism event: Provided, That funds from this appropriation also may be used to reimburse the appropriation account of any Depar

Source: Supplied 2024 U.S. Code historical extraction · 28 U.S.C. § 526

Stored review status: historical_2024_not_currentness_verified. Same stored citation; legal effect and authority still require review.