28 U.S.C. § 519
Supervision of litigation
Except as otherwise authorized by law, the Attorney General shall supervise all litigation to which the United States, an agency, or officer thereof is a party, and shall direct all United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys, and special attorneys appointed under section 543 of this title in the discharge of their respective duties.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 79
cases (4 in the last 5 years), 1970–2025 · leading case: United States v. W. R. Walters, United States of Am. v. Two Hundred Sixty-Two Firearms, 638 F.2d 947 (6th Cir. 1981).
United States v. W. R. Walters, United States of Am. v. Two Hundred Sixty-Two Firearms, 638 F.2d 947 (6th Cir. 1981). “While the United States Attorney General has broad supervisory power over all United States Attorneys, 28 U.S.C. § 519 , the need for an efficient administration of our complex and ever burgeoning justice system has necessitated delegation of the Attorney General’s supervisory…”
Heckler v. Edwards, 465 U.S. 870 (1984). “See note following 28 U. S. C. §519 (1982 ed.). In July 1981, the agency’s concession that § 211(a)(5)(A) of the Act is unconstitutional was published as Social Security Ruling 81-17c (C.”
Smith v. Krieger, 389 F. App'x 789 (10th Cir. 2010). “Smith sought an order (1) removing the defendant judges from their offices; (2) convening a grand jury to hear evidence of federal crimes those judges and others allegedly committed; (3) compelling the Attorney General to provide supervisory counsel under 28 U.S.C. § 519 ; and…”
Axiom Resource Mgmt., Inc. v. United States, 78 Fed. Cl. 576 (Fed. Cl. 2007). “The Government contends that the court’s request for the views of the Federal Trade Commission staff as amicus on the competitive issues central to the “public interest” determination that the court must make before entering an'injunction, “would contravene well-established…”
United States v. Donziger, 38 F.4th 290 (2d Cir. 2022). “See 28 U.S.C. § 519 (“Except as otherwise authorized by law, the Attorney General shall supervise all litigation 14 reading of Young indicates that a federal court’s inherent authority to punish disobedience and vindicate its authority is an excepted provision or authorization…”
S&E Contractors, Inc. v. United States, 406 U.S. 1 (1972). “Normally, where the responsibility for rendering a decision is vested in a coordinate branch of Government, the duty of the Department of Justice is to implement that decision and not to repudiate it.”
United States v. Alky Enter., Inc., 969 F.2d 1309 (1st Cir. 1992). “See 28 U.S.C. § 519 (“[e]x-cept as otherwise authorized by law, the Attorney General shall supervise all litigation in which the United States .”
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes v. Janet Reno, Attorney Gen. of the United States, 56 F.3d 1476 (D.C. Cir. 1995). ““Except as otherwise provided by law,” the authority to conduct litigation in which the United States is interested is reserved to the Department of Justice, 28 U.”
United States v. Pamela Jean Gantt, 194 F.3d 987 (9th Cir. 1999). “The Attorney General has unfettered discretion to reassign cases from United States Attorneys to herself or.”
United States v. Baldwin, 541 F. Supp. 2d 1184 (D.N.M. 2008). “The Attorney General can remove a United States Attorney from participation in particular cases whenever she believes that it would be “in the interests of the United States” to do so.”
United States v. Am. Tel. & Tel. Co., 461 F. Supp. 1314 (D.D.C. 1978). “Indeed, the basic charter of the Department of Justice ( 28 U.S.C. § 519 ) carefully distinguishes between the Attorney General and the government by providing that “.”
In re Grand Jury Investigation, 315 F. Supp. 3d 602 (D.C. Cir. 2018). “" 28 U.S.C. §§ 519 , 547(5) ; see also id. § 509 ("vest[ing]" U.”
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