Chapter CLXXXI. *giving Priority to certain Cases to which a State is a Party in the Courts of the United States*
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CHAP. CLXXXI.— An Act *giving Priority to certain Cases to which a State is a Party in the Courts of the United States*. June 30, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Priority given to certain cases in the United States courts in which a State is a party. That in all suits and actions either at law or in chancery, now pending, or that may hereafter be brought in any of the courts of the United States, whether original suits in the courts of the United States or brought into said courts by appeal, writ of error, or removal from any State court, wherein a State is a party, or where the execution of the revenue laws of any State may be enjoined or stayed by judicial order or process, it shall be the duty of any court in which such cause may be pending, on sufficient reason shown,, to give such cause the preference and priority over all other civil causes pending in such court between private parties.
And the State, or the party claiming under the laws of the State, the execution of whose revenue laws is enjoined or suspended, shall have a right to have such cause heard at any time after such cause is docketed in such court, in preference to any other civil cause pending in such court between private parties. Approved, June 30, 1870.