§ 139. — Times for holding regular sessions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 28USC139]
TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
PART I--ORGANIZATION OF COURTS
CHAPTER 5--DISTRICT COURTS
Sec. 139. Times for holding regular sessions
The times for commencing regular sessions of the district court for
transacting judicial business at the places fixed by this chapter shall
be determined by the rules or orders of the court. Such rules or orders
may provide that at one or more of such places the court shall be in
continuous session for such purposes on all business days throughout the
year. At other places a session of the court shall continue for such
purposes until terminated by order of final adjournment or by
commencement of the next regular session at the same place.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 897; Pub. L. 88-139, Sec. 1, Oct. 16,
1963, 77 Stat. 248.)
Historical and Revision Notes
The purpose of this section is to remove all doubt as to whether the
mere beginning of a new term at one place ends a prior term begun at
another place. As revised, it conforms to a uniform course of judicial
decisions. See U.S. v. Perlstein, 39 F.Supp. 965, 968 (D.C.N.J. 1941),
and cases cited.
Amendments
1963--Pub. L. 88-139 substituted provisions requiring the times for
commencing regular sessions of the district court to be determined by
the rules or orders of the court, authorizing such rules or orders to
provide that at one or more of the places fixed by this chapter, the
court shall be in continuous session on all business days throughout the
year, and that at other places, a session continues until terminated by
order of final adjournment or by commencement of the next regular
session at the same place, for provisions that a term continues until
terminated by order of final adjournment or by commencement of the next
term at the same place, in the text, and ``Times for holding regular
sessions'' for ``Term continued until terminated'' in section catchline.
