---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1508"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1508"
heading: "Judicial review"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1508"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 76 — Missing Persons"
---

# §1508. Judicial review

- (a) **Right of Review.—** A [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) who is the [primary next of kin](/usc/10/1513.md?p=4) (or the [previously designated person](/usc/10/1513.md?p=6)) of a [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) who is the subject of a finding described in [subsection (b)](#b) may obtain judicial review in a [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) district court of that finding, but only on the basis of a claim that there is information that could affect the status of the [missing person](/usc/10/1513.md?p=1)’s case that was not adequately considered during the administrative review process under this chapter. Any such review shall be as provided in [section 706 of title 5](/usc/5/706.md).
- (b) **Findings for Which Judicial Review May Be Sought.—** [Subsection (a)](#a) applies to the following findings:
  - (1) A finding by a board appointed under section [1504](/usc/10/1504.md) or [1505](/usc/10/1505.md) of this title that a [missing person](/usc/10/1513.md?p=1) is dead.
  - (2) A finding by a board appointed under [section 1509 of this title](/usc/10/1509.md) that confirms that a [missing person](/usc/10/1513.md?p=1) formerly declared dead is in fact dead.
- (c) **Subsequent Review.—** Appeals from a decision of the district court shall be taken to the appropriate [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) court of appeals and to the Supreme Court as provided by law.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title V, § 569(b)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 348.)