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title: "28 U.S.C. § 2102"
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title_number: 28
title_name: "JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE"
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# 28 U.S.C. § 2102 - Priority of criminal case on appeal from State court

## Text

Criminal cases on review from State courts shall have priority, on the docket of the Supreme Court, over all cases except cases to which the United States is a party and such other cases as the court may decide to be of public importance.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 962.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision NotesBased on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 351 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 253, 36 Stat. 1160; Jan. 31, 1928, ch. 14, § 1, 45 Stat. 54). Changes were made in phraseology.