An Act to provide for the appointment of two additional judges for the United States Court of Claims, and for other purposes
PL 89-425 (S.1804), enacted 05/11/1966

80 
STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 89.425-MAY 11, 1966 
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of section 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act: 
Provided^ That the time and method of disposition shall be fixed with 
due regard to the protection of the United States against avoidable 
loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against 
avoidable disruption of their usual markets. 
Approved May H , 1966. 
Public Law 89-423 
AN ACT 
To autliorize the disposal of rutheiiium from the supplemental stockpile. 
May 1 1, 1966 
[H. R. 13663] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Admin-
istrator of General Services is hereby authorized to dispose of, by 
negotiation or otherwise, approximately fifteen thousand troy ounces 
of ruthenium now held in the supplemental stockpile established pur-
suant to section 104(b) of the Agricultural Trade Development and 
Assistance Act of 1954, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1704(b)). 
Such dis-
]X)sition may be made without regard to the provisions of section 3 
of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 
98b) : Provided^ That the time and method of disposition shall be 
fixed with due regard to the protection of the United States against 
avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and con-
sumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets. 
Approved May 11, 1966. 
Ruthenium. 
Disposal. 
73 Stat. 60 7. 
60 Stat. 597. 
Public Law 89-424 
AN ACT 
To authorize the disposal of vanadium from the national stockpile. 
May 11, 1966 
[H. R. 13774] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That the Admin-
istrator of General Services is hereby authorized to dispose of, by 
negotiation or otherwise, approximately six thousand four hundred 
and fifty short tons of vanadium (V content) now held in the national 
stockpile established pursuant to the Strategic and Critical Materials 
Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98-98h). 
Such disposition may be made 
•without regard to the provisions of section 3 of the Strategic and 
Critical Materials Stock Piling Act: Provided, That the time and 
method of disposition shall be fixed with due regard to the protection 
of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of 
producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption 
of their usual markets. 
Approved May 11, 1966. 
Vanadium. 
Disposal. 
60 Stat. 596. 
Public Law 89-425 
AN ACT 
To provide for the appointment of two additional judges for the United States 
Court of Claims, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America In Congress asseiiibled, That (a) the Presi-
dent shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, 
two additional associate judges for the Court of Claims. 
May 1 1, 19 66 
[S. 1804] 
U.S. Court of 
Claims. 
Additional 
judges. 
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(b) In order to reflect the changes in the number of permanent as-
sociate judges of the Court of Claims caused by this section, section 171 
62 Stat. 898. 
f)f ^j^le 28 of the L'nited States Code is amended by striking out the 
word "four" in the first sentence thereof and inserting in lieu thereof 
the word "six". 
SEC. 2. Section 175 of title 28, United States Code, in its present form 
is stricken, and the following section is inserted as section 175 of title 
28 of the Ignited States Code: 
"§ 175. Assignment of judges; divisions; hearings; quorum; 
decisions 
" (a) Judges of the Court of Claims shall sit on the court and its divi-
sions in such order and at such times as the court directs. 
"(b) The Court of Claims may authorize the hearing and determi-
nation of cases and controversies by separate divisions, each consisting 
of three judges. Such divisions shall sit at the times and places and 
hear the cases and controversies assigned as the court directs. 
"(c) Cases and controversies shall be heard and determined by a 
court or division of not more than three judges, unless ,a hearing 
en banc is ordered by the court or by the chief judge. The court 
en banc for an initial hearing shall consist of the judges of the Court 
of Claims in regular active service. In case of a vacancy in the court 
or of the inability of a judge thereof in regular active service to sit, 
a justice or judge assigned to the court pursuant to chapter 13 of this 
28 use 291-296. ^-jj^jg shall bc Competent to sit in the court en banc when designated 
by the court to do so. 
"(d) A rehearing en banc may be ordered by a majority of the 
judges of the Court of Claims in regular active service. The court 
en banc for a rehearing shall consist of the judges of the Court of 
Claims in regular active service. A judge of the Court of Claims 
who has retired from regular active service shall also be competent 
to sit as a judge of the court en banc in the rehearing of a case or 
controversy if he sat on the court or division at the original hearing 
thereof. 
"(e) Two judges shall constitute a quorum of a division of the 
Court of Claims, four judges shall constitute a quorum of a court 
en banc. 
"(f) A majority of the judges or justices who actually sit on the 
court or division or court en banc must concur in any decision." 
SEC. 3. Item 175 in the analysis of chapter 7 of title 28 of the United 
28 use 171-175. States Code, immediately preceding section 171, is amended to read 
as follows: "175. Assignment of judges; divisions; hearings; quorum; 
decisions." 
Approved May 11, 1966.