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title: "28 U.S.C. § 1585"
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title_number: 28
title_name: "JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE"
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chapter_name: "COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE"
section: "1585"
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# 28 U.S.C. § 1585 - Powers in law and equity

## Text

The Court of International Trade shall possess all the powers in law and equity of, or as conferred by statute upon, a district court of the United States.

(Added Pub. L. 96–417, title II, § 201, Oct. 10, 1980, 94 Stat. 1730.)