---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 2322"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "2322"
heading: "United States as party"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/2322"
units:
  - "Part VI — Particular Proceedings"
  - "Chapter 157 — Surface Transportation Board Orders; Enforcement and Review"
---

# §2322. United States as party


All actions specified in [section 2321 of this title](/usc/28/2321.md) shall be brought by or against the [United States](/usc/28/3002.md?p=15).


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 969.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 48 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 211, 36 Stat. 1150; Oct. 22, 1913, ch. 32, 38 Stat. 219).

Word “actions” was substituted for “cases and proceedings”, in view of Rule 2 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

A provision authorizing intervention by the United States was omitted. The United States, under the provisions of this section, is a necessary and indispensable original party, and hence intervention is unnecessary. (See Lambert Run Coal Co. v. Baltimore & O. R. Co., 1922, 42 S.Ct. 349, 258 U.S. 377, 66 L.Ed. 671.)