Title 48 — Territories and Insular PossessionsRelease 119-73not60
§2168 Selection of Presiding Judge
Title 48 › Chapter 20— PUERTO RICO OVERSIGHT, MANAGEMENT, AND ECONOMIC STABILITY › Subchapter III— ADJUSTMENTS OF DEBTS › § 2168
Summary
When the debtor is a territory, the Chief Justice must pick a district judge to handle the case. If the debtor is not a territory and there is no joint-administration motion or no affiliate-territory case, the circuit’s chief appellate judge must pick a district judge.
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Title 48, §2168
Territories and Insular Possessions — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
(a)For cases in which the debtor is a territory, the Chief Justice of the United States shall designate a district court judge to sit by designation to conduct the case.
(b)For cases in which the debtor is not a territory, and no motion for joint administration of the debtor’s case with the case of its affiliate territory has been filed or there is no case in which the affiliate territory is a debtor, the chief judge of the court of appeals for the circuit embracing the district in which the case is commenced shall designate a district court judge to conduct the case.
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48 U.S.C. § 2168
Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60