---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 361"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "361"
heading: "Reimbursement of expenses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/361"
units:
  - "Part I — Organization of Courts"
  - "Chapter 16 — Complaints Against Judges and Judicial Discipline"
---

# §361. Reimbursement of expenses


Upon the request of a [judge](/usc/28/351.md?p=d-1) whose conduct is the subject of a complaint under this chapter, the judicial council may, if the complaint has been finally dismissed under [section 354(a)(1)(B)](/usc/28/354.md?p=a-1-B), recommend that the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts award reimbursement, from funds appropriated to the Federal judiciary, for those reasonable expenses, including attorneys’ fees, incurred by that [judge](/usc/28/351.md?p=d-1) during the investigation which would not have been incurred but for the requirements of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title I, § 11042(a), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1854.)