---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 2169"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "2169"
heading: "Abstention"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/2169"
units:
  - "Chapter 20 — Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability"
  - "Subchapter III — Adjustments of Debts"
---

# §2169. Abstention


Nothing in this subchapter prevents a district court in the interests of justice from abstaining from hearing a particular proceeding arising in or related to a case under this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–187, title III, § 309, June 30, 2016, 130 Stat. 583.)