---
kind: "unit"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
key: "ptI/ch3"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 3"
heading: "Courts of Appeals"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/ptI-ch3"
sections_count: 9
---

# Chapter 3 — Courts of Appeals

Title 28 — Judiciary and Judicial Procedure › Part I — Organization of Courts

## Sections

- [§41. Number and composition of circuits](/usc/28/41.md)
- [§42. Allotment of Supreme Court justices to circuits](/usc/28/42.md)
- [§43. Creation and composition of courts](/usc/28/43.md)
- [§44. Appointment, tenure, residence and salary of circuit judges](/usc/28/44.md)
- [§45. Chief judges; precedence of judges](/usc/28/45.md)
- [§46. Assignment of judges; panels; hearings; quorum](/usc/28/46.md)
- [§47. Disqualification of trial judge to hear appeal](/usc/28/47.md)
- [§48. Terms of court](/usc/28/48.md)
- [§49. Assignment of judges to division to appoint independent counsels](/usc/28/49.md)