---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 517"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "517"
heading: "Interests of United States in pending suits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/517"
units:
  - "Part II — Department of Justice"
  - "Chapter 31 — The Attorney General"
---

# §517. Interests of United States in pending suits


The Solicitor General, or any officer of the Department of Justice, may be sent by the Attorney General to any State or district in the United States to attend to the interests of the United States in a suit pending in a court of the United States, or in a court of a State, or to attend to any other interest of the United States.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 89–554, § 4(c), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 613.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Derivation | U.S. Code | Revised Statutes and<br>Statutes at Large |
|  | 5 U.S.C. 316. | R.S. § 367. |