---
kind: "section"
citation: "37 C.F.R. § 11.802"
title: "37"
number: "11.802"
heading: "Judicial and legal officials."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/37/11.802"
---

# §11.802. Judicial and legal officials.

- (a) A practitioner shall not make a statement that the practitioner knows to be false or with reckless disregard as to its truth or falsity concerning the qualifications or integrity of a judge, adjudicatory officer or public legal officer, or of a candidate for election or appointment to judicial or legal office.
- (b) A practitioner who is a candidate for judicial office shall comply with the applicable provisions of the Code of Judicial Conduct.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 78 FR 20201, Apr. 3, 2013, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 500; 15 U.S.C. 1123; 35 U.S.C. 2(b)(2), 32, 41; Sec. 1, Pub. L. 113-227, 128 Stat. 2114.

### Source

Source: 69 FR 35452, June 24, 2004, unless otherwise noted.