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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 256. Trials at ports other than New York
(a) The chief judge may designate any judge or judges of the
court to proceed, together with necessary assistants, to any port
or to any place within the jurisdiction of the United States to
preside at a trial or hearing at the port or place.
(b) Upon application of a party or upon his own initiative, and
upon a showing that the interests of economy, efficiency, and
justice will be served, the chief judge may issue an order
authorizing a judge of the court to preside in an evidentiary
hearing in a foreign country whose laws do not prohibit such a
hearing: Provided, however, That an interlocutory appeal may be
taken from such an order pursuant to the provisions of section
1292(d)(1) of this title, and the United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit may, in its discretion, consider the
appeal.
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