Under the Act of June 25, 1948, 62 Stat. 869, effective [PUBLIC LAW 773-80TH CONGRESS] [H. R. 3214] AN ACT To revise, codify, and enact into law title 28 of the United States Code Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 15. Conferences and councils of judges.......... 17. Resignation and retirement of judges.-- § 171. Appointment and number of judges The President shall appoint, by and with the advice and The chief judge of the Court of Claims shall have prece- The other judges shall have precedence and preside accord- § 173. Tenure and salaries of judges The chief judge and associate judges of the Court of Claims The Court of Claims shall hold at the seat of government Three judges of the Court of Claims constitute a quorum. Sec CHAPTER 17. RESIGNATION AND RETIREMENT OF JUDGES 371. Resignation or retirement for age; substitute judge on failure to retire. 372. Retirement for disability. 373. Judges in Territories and Possessions. 374. Residence of retired judges. § 371. Resignation or retirement for age; substitute judge on failure to retire Any justice or judge of the United States appointed to hold office during good behavior who resigns after attaining the age of seventy years and after serving at least ten years continuously or otherwise shall, during the remainder of his lifetime, continue to receive the salary which he was receiving when he resigned. Any justice or judge of the United States appointed to hold office during good behavior may retain his office but retire from regular active service after attaining the age of seventy years and after serving at least ten years continuously or otherwise. He shall, during the remainder of his lifetime, continue to receive the salary of the office. The President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a successor to a justice or judge who retires. Whenever any circuit or district judge eligible to resign or retire under this section does neither, and the President finds that such judge is unable to discharge efficiently all the duties of his office by reason of permanent mental or physical disability and that the appointment of an additional judge is necessary for the efficient dispatch of business, the President may make such appointment by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. If such additional judge is appointed, the vacancy subsequently caused by the death, resignation, or retirement of the disabled judge shall not be filled. Any circuit or district judge who retires or whose disability causes the appointment of an additional judge, shall, for purposes of precedence, be treated as junior to the other judges of the circuit or district. § 372. Retirement for disability Any justice or judge of the United States appointed to hold office during good behavior who becomes permanently disabled from performing his duties may retire from regular active service, and the President may appoint a successor. Any justice or judge of the United States desiring to retire under this section shall certify to the President his disability in writing. Whenever an associate justice of the Supreme Court, a chief judge of a circuit or the chief judge of the Court of Claims, Court of Customs and Patent Appeals or Customs Court, desires to retire, he shall furnish to the President a certificate of disability signed by the Chief Justice of the United States. A circuit or district judge, desiring to retire, shall furnish to the President a certificate of disability signed by the chief judge of his circuit. A judge of the Court of Claims, Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, or Customs Court desiring to retire, shall furnish to the President a certificate of disability signed by the chief judge of his court. Each justice or judge retiring under this section after serving ten years shall, during the remainder of his lifetime, receive the salary of the office. A justice or judge retiring under this section who has served less than ten years shall, during the remainder of his lifetime, receive one-half the salary of the office. § 374. Residence of retired judges Retired judges of the United States are not subject to restrictions as to residence. CHAPTER 19. DISTRIBUTION OF REPORTS AND DIGESTS § 411. Supreme Court reports and digests; printing, binding, and distribution (a) The decisions of the Supreme Court shall be printed, bound, and issued as soon as practicable after rendition. Distribution under this section shall not be made to any place where the court is held in a building not owned by the United States unless the volumes are committed to the custody of a United States officer there. The Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall distribute one copy of each volume to the Clerk and one copy to the Marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States and one copy to each justice or judge of the United States and of the courts of the Territories and Possessions, and to each place where a court of appeals or district court is regularly held. (c) The Attorney General shall distribute one set of reports and one set of digests thereof to the executive officers entitled to receive such reports who have not received them and to each United States attorney who has not received them. The Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall distribute one set of reports and one set of digests thereof to each judge of the United States and of the courts of the Territories and Possessions who has not received them and to each of the places where courts of appeals or district courts are held to which reports have not been distributed. § 413. Reports, digests, and other publications; purchase and distribution The Attorney General may procure and distribute a complete set of the Federal Reporter or other publication containing the decisions of the courts of appeals, former circuit courts, and district courts, digests and continuations thereof to the Department of Justice, the Solicitor General, the General Counsel for the Department of the Treasury, the Solicitor of the Department of the Interior, the Commissioner of Patents, and the Interstate Commerce Commission. |