28 U.S.C. § 1442
Federal officers or agencies sued or prosecuted
United States · Title 28 — JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE · Status: effective
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- 28 U.S.C. § 1442, Federal officers or agencies sued or prosecuted, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/465249
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A civil action or criminal prosecution that is commenced in a State court and that is against or directed to any of the following may be removed by them to the district court of the United States for the district and division embracing the place wherein it is pending:
Solely for purposes of determining the propriety of removal under subsection (a), a law enforcement officer, who is the defendant in a criminal prosecution, shall be deemed to have been acting under the color of his office if the officer—
In this section, the following definitions apply:
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1996House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Removal Clarification Act of 2011House: 396–4Senate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013