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Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 -> 59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun, verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make legal-us-code default now covers every title. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "LegalText"
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title: "38 U.S.C. § 7265"
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description: "Contempt authority; assistance to the Court"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 38
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title_name: "VETERANS’ BENEFITS"
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chapter_number: "72"
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chapter_name: "UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR VETERANS CLAIMS"
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section: "7265"
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citation: "38 U.S.C. § 7265"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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---
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# 38 U.S.C. § 7265 - Contempt authority; assistance to the Court
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## Text
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(a) The Court shall have power to punish by fine or imprisonment such contempt of its authority as—
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(1) misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice;
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(2) misbehavior of any of its officers in their official transactions; or
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(3) disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command.
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(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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(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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## Notes
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Editorial Notes
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Amendments1991—Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 4065 of this title as this section.
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