38 USC § 7265 - Contempt authority; assistance to the Court

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title: "38 USC § 7265 - Contempt authority; assistance to the Court"
title_number: 38
title_name: "VETERANS’ BENEFITS"
section_number: "7265"
section_name: "Contempt authority; assistance to the Court"
chapter_number: 72
chapter_name: "UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR VETERANS CLAIMS"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "PROCEDURE"
part_number: "V"
part_name: "BOARDS, ADMINISTRATIONS, AND SERVICES"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-21"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 100–687, div. A, title III, § 301(a), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4116, § 4065; renumbered § 7265, Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238.)"
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# § 7265. Contempt authority; assistance to the Court

**(a)** The Court shall have power to punish by fine or imprisonment such contempt of its authority as—

**(1)** misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice;

**(2)** misbehavior of any of its officers in their official transactions; or

**(3)** disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command.

**(b)** The Court shall have such assistance in the carrying out of its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command as is available to a court of the United States. The United States marshal for a district in which the Court is sitting shall, if requested by the chief judge of the Court, attend any session of the Court in that district.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 100–687, div. A, title III, § 301(a), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4116, § 4065; renumbered § 7265, Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991— renumbered  as this section.