To amend title 28, United States Code, to prevent the misuse of foreign law in Federal courts, and for other purposes.

Amends the federal judicial code to prohibit federal courts from deciding any issue on the authority of foreign law, except to the extent that the Constitution or an Act of Congress requires such consideration.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 973 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 973

To amend title 28, United States Code, to prevent the misuse of foreign 
             law in Federal courts, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 9, 2011

     Mrs. Adams (for herself, Mr. Posey, Mr. Akin, Mr. Coble, Mr. 
 Sensenbrenner, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Carter, Mr. Westmoreland, Mr. King of 
 Iowa, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. Gingrey of Georgia, Mr. Garrett, Mr. 
    Pitts, Mr. Roe of Tennessee, Mr. McClintock, Mr. Manzullo, Mr. 
 Neugebauer, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Huelskamp, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Kingston, Mr. 
  Duncan of South Carolina, Mrs. McMorris Rodgers, Mr. Stutzman, Mr. 
 Miller of Florida, Mr. Flores, Mr. Issa, Mr. Pence, Mr. Gallegly, Mr. 
 Forbes, Mr. Marino, Mr. Ross of Florida, Mr. Chaffetz, Mr. Daniel E. 
 Lungren of California, Mrs. Black, Mrs. Miller of Michigan, Mr. Cole, 
  Mrs. Schmidt, Mr. Paul, Mr. Reed, Mrs. Ellmers, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. 
 McCotter, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Barletta, Mr. Bachus, Mr. 
 Goodlatte, Mr. Walberg, Mr. Duncan of Tennessee, Mr. Rooney, and Mr. 
    Jones) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 28, United States Code, to prevent the misuse of foreign 
             law in Federal courts, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. USE OF FOREIGN LAW IN FEDERAL COURTS.

    Part VI of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following:

          ``CHAPTER 183--USE OF FOREIGN LAW IN FEDERAL COURTS

``Sec. 4201. Limitation on use of foreign law in Federal courts
    ``In any court created by or under article III of the Constitution 
of the United States, no justice, judge, or other judicial official 
shall decide any issue in a case before that court in whole or in part 
on the authority of foreign law, except to the extent the Constitution 
or an Act of Congress requires the consideration of that foreign 
law.''.

SEC. 2. CLERICAL AMENDMENT.

    The table of chapters for part VI of title 28, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following:

``183. Use of foreign law in Federal courts.................    4201''.
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