---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 359"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "359"
heading: "Restrictions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/359"
units:
  - "Part I — Organization of Courts"
  - "Chapter 16 — Complaints Against Judges and Judicial Discipline"
---

# §359. Restrictions

- (a) **Restriction on Individuals Who Are Subject of Investigation.—** No [judge](/usc/28/351.md?p=d-1) whose conduct is the subject of an investigation under this chapter shall serve upon a special committee appointed under [section 353](/usc/28/353.md), upon a judicial council, upon the Judicial Conference, or upon the standing committee established under [section 331](/usc/28/331.md), until all proceedings under this chapter relating to such investigation have been finally terminated.
- (b) **Amicus Curiae.—** No person shall be granted the right to intervene or to appear as amicus curiae in any proceeding before a judicial council or the Judicial Conference under this chapter.

## Source credit

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