28-U.S.C.-1654

§1654 – Appearance Personally Or By Counsel

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Title 28 > Part V > Chapter 111 > Section 1654

Details

• Reference: Section 1654
• Legend: §1654 – Appearance Personally Or By Counsel
• USCode Year: 2013

Provision Content

In all courts of the United States the parties may plead and conduct their own cases personally or by counsel as, by the rules of such courts, respectively, are permitted to manage and conduct causes therein.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 944; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, §91, 63 Stat. 103.)

Historical Revision Notes

1948 Act

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §394 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, §272, 36 Stat. 1164).

Words as, by the rules of the said courts respectively, are permitted to manage and conduct causes therein, after counsel, were omitted as surplusage. The revised section and section 2071 of this title effect no change in the procedure of the Tax Court before which certain accountants may be admitted as counsel for litigants under Rule 2 of the Tax Court.

Changes were made in phraseology.

1949 Act

This section restores in section 1654 of title 28, U.S.C., language of the original law.

Amendments

1949—Act May 24, 1949, inserted as, by the rules of such courts, respectively, are permitted to manage and conduct causes therein.

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