---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 357"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "357"
heading: "Review of orders and actions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/357"
units:
  - "Part I — Organization of Courts"
  - "Chapter 16 — Complaints Against Judges and Judicial Discipline"
---

# §357. Review of orders and actions

- (a) **Review of Action of Judicial Council.—** A [complainant](/usc/28/351.md?p=d-2) or [judge](/usc/28/351.md?p=d-1) aggrieved by an action of the judicial council under [section 354](/usc/28/354.md) may petition the Judicial Conference of the United States for review thereof.
- (b) **Action of Judicial Conference.—** The Judicial Conference, or the standing committee established under [section 331](/usc/28/331.md), may grant a petition filed by a [complainant](/usc/28/351.md?p=d-2) or [judge](/usc/28/351.md?p=d-1) under [subsection (a)](#a).
- (c) **No Judicial Review.—** Except as expressly provided in this section and [section 352(c)](/usc/28/352.md?p=c), all orders and determinations, including denials of petitions for review, shall be final and conclusive and shall not be judicially reviewable on appeal or otherwise.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title I, § 11042(a), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1853.)