28 USC § 568 - Practice of law prohibited

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title: "28 USC § 568 - Practice of law prohibited"
title_number: 28
title_name: "JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE"
section_number: "568"
section_name: "Practice of law prohibited"
chapter_number: 37
chapter_name: "UNITED STATES MARSHALS SERVICE"
part_number: "II"
part_name: "DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 89–554, § 4(c), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 621, § 575; renumbered § 568, Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7608(a)(2)(B), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4514.)"
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# § 568. Practice of law prohibited

A United States marshal or deputy marshal may not practice law in any court of the United States.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 89–554, § 4(c), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 621, § 575; renumbered § 568, Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7608(a)(2)(B), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4514.)

| Derivation | U.S. Code | Revised Statutes andStatutes at Large |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | 28 U.S.C. 556. | [None]. |

The words “may not” are substituted for “shall not”.

### 1948 Act

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §§ 395 and 396 (, §§ 273, 274, ).

Section consolidates parts of sections 395 and 396 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed. Similar provisions in said sections, relating to clerks, are incorporated in .

The revised section substitutes, as simpler and more appropriate, the prohibition against practice of law “in any court of the United States” for the more involved language of , U.S.C., 1940 ed., which provided that no clerks or marshals, deputies, or assistants within the district for which appointed “shall act as solicitor, proctor, attorney or counsel, in any cause depending in any of said courts, or in any district for which he is acting as such officer.”

Provisions of , U.S.C., 1940 ed., for striking the name of an offender from the roll of attorneys and for recommendation of dismissal, were omitted as unnecessary and as covered by .

Changes were made in phraseology.

## Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 568, added , , , related to availability of appropriations for transfer of prisoners to narcotic farms, prior to repeal by .

### Amendments

1988— renumbered  as this section.