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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1631. Transfer to cure want of jurisdiction
Whenever a civil action is filed in a court as defined in section
610 of this title or an appeal, including a petition for review of
administrative action, is noticed for or filed with such a court
and that court finds that there is a want of jurisdiction, the
court shall, if it is in the interest of justice, transfer such
action or appeal to any other such court in which the action or
appeal could have been brought at the time it was filed or noticed,
and the action or appeal shall proceed as if it had been filed in
or noticed for the court to which it is transferred on the date
upon which it was actually filed in or noticed for the court from
which it is transferred.
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