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28 USC Sec. 1502 01/02/01
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TITLE 28 – JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
PART IV – JURISDICTION AND VENUE
CHAPTER 91 – UNITED STATES COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS
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Sec. 1502. Treaty cases
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Except as otherwise provided by Act of Congress, the United
States Court of Federal Claims shall not have jurisdiction of any
claim against the United States growing out of or dependent upon
any treaty entered into with foreign nations.
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(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 942; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, Sec.
88, 63 Stat. 102; Pub. L. 97-164, title I, Sec. 133(e)(1), Apr. 2,
1982, 96 Stat. 40; Pub. L. 102-572, title IX, Sec. 902(a)(1), Oct.
29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4516.)
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HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
1948 ACT
Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 259 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch.
231, Sec. 153, 36 Stat. 1138).
Phrase ”Except as otherwise provided by enactment of Congress”
was inserted to cover cases where special Acts confer jurisdiction.
(See Sioux Tribe of Indians v. United States, 1943, 97 Ct.Cl. 613,
certiorari denied 63 S.Ct. 992, 318 U.S. 789, 87 L.Ed. 1155, and In
re United States, 1873, 17 Wall. 439, 443, 21 L.Ed. 696.)
Words ”not pending therein on December 1, 1862,” were omitted
as obsolete