28 USC § 2322 - United States as party

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title: "28 USC § 2322 - United States as party"
title_number: 28
title_name: "JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE"
section_number: "2322"
section_name: "United States as party"
chapter_number: 157
chapter_name: "SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD ORDERS; ENFORCEMENT AND REVIEW"
part_number: "VI"
part_name: "PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 969.)"
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# § 2322. United States as party

section 2321 of this title

All actions specified in  shall be brought by or against the United States.

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**Source Credit**: (June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 969.)

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 48 (, ; , ).

Word “actions” was substituted for “cases and proceedings”, in view of Rule 2 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

A provision authorizing intervention by the United States was omitted. The United States, under the provisions of this section, is a necessary and indispensable original party, and hence intervention is unnecessary. (See ., 1922, 42 S.Ct. 349, 258 U.S. 377, 66 L.Ed. 671.)