Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-73not60
§1507 Picketing or Parading
Title 18 › Part I— CRIMES › Chapter 73— OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE › § 1507
Summary
It makes it a crime to picket, parade, or hold demonstrations (including using sound trucks) near a U.S. courthouse or near the homes or workplaces of judges, jurors, witnesses, or court officers when done to interfere with court business or to influence those people. Penalty: fined under federal law, jailed up to one year, or both. Courts can still punish contempt.
Full Legal Text
Title 18, §1507
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Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or with such intent uses any sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Nothing in this section shall interfere with or prevent the exercise by any court of the United States of its power to punish for contempt.
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1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $5,000” in first par.
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18 U.S.C. § 1507
Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60