---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 7265"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "7265"
heading: "Contempt authority; assistance to the Court"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/7265"
units:
  - "Part V — Boards, Administrations, and Services"
  - "Chapter 72 — United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims"
  - "Subchapter II — Procedure"
---

# §7265. Contempt authority; assistance to the Court

- (a) The Court shall have power to punish by fine or imprisonment such contempt of its authority as—
  - (1) misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice;
  - (2) misbehavior of any of its officers in their official transactions; or
  - (3) disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command.
- (b) The Court shall have such assistance in the carrying out of its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command as is available to a court of the United States. The United States marshal for a district in which the Court is sitting shall, if requested by the chief judge of the Court, attend any session of the Court in that district.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–687, div. A, title III, § 301(a), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4116, § 4065; renumbered § 7265, Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 4065 of this title as this section.