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    18 USC Sec. 1507                                            01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 73 - OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

HEAD

    Sec. 1507. Picketing or parading

STATUTE

      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.

SOURCE

    (Added Sept. 23, 1950, ch. 1024, title I, Sec. 31(a), 64 Stat.
    1018; amended Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(K),
    Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

AMENDMENTS

      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $5,000" in first par.