§ 2521. — Subpoenas and incidental powers.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 28USC2521]
TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
PART VI--PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS
CHAPTER 165--UNITED STATES COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS PROCEDURE
Sec. 2521. Subpoenas and incidental powers
(a) Subpoenas requiring the attendance of parties or witnesses and
subpoenas requiring the production of books, papers, documents or
tangible things by any party or witness having custody or control
thereof, may be issued for purposes of discovery or for use of the
things produced as evidence in accordance with the rules and orders of
the court. Such subpoenas shall be issued and served and compliance
therewith shall be compelled as provided in the rules and orders of the
court.
(b) The United States Court of Federal Claims shall have power to
punish by fine or imprisonment, at its discretion, such contempt of its
authority as--
(1) misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto
as to obstruct the administration of justice;
(2) misbehavior of any of its officers in their official
transactions; or
(3) disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process,
order, rule, decree, or command.
(c) The United States Court of Federal Claims shall have such
assistance in the carrying out of its lawful writ, process, order, rule,
decree, or command as is available to a court of the United States. The
United States marshal for any district in which the Court of Federal
Claims is sitting shall, when requested by the chief judge of the Court
of Federal Claims, attend any session of the Court of Federal Claims in
such district.
(Added Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1263, Sec. 59(a), 68 Stat. 1248; amended Pub.
L. 102-572, title IX, Sec. 910(a), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4519.)
Amendments
1992--Pub. L. 102-572 inserted ``and incidental powers'' in section
catchline, designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), and added
subsecs. (b) and (c).
Effective Date of 1992 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 102-572 effective Oct. 29, 1992, see section
911 of Pub. L. 102-572, set out as a note under section 171 of this
title.
