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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 2521. Subpoenas and incidental powers
(a) Subpoenas requiring the attendance of parties or witnesses
and subpoenas requiring the production of books, papers, documents
or tangible things by any party or witness having custody or
control thereof, may be issued for purposes of discovery or for use
of the things produced as evidence in accordance with the rules and
orders of the court. Such subpoenas shall be issued and served and
compliance therewith shall be compelled as provided in the rules
and orders of the court.
(b) The United States Court of Federal Claims shall have power to
punish by fine or imprisonment, at its discretion, such contempt of
its authority as -
(1) misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near
thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice;
(2) misbehavior of any of its officers in their official
transactions; or
(3) disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process,
order, rule, decree, or command.
(c) The United States Court of Federal Claims 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 any district in which the
Court of Federal Claims is sitting shall, when requested by the
chief judge of the Court of Federal Claims, attend any session of
the Court of Federal Claims in such district.
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