28 U.S.C. § 3013
Section 3013 · Modification or protective order; supervision of enforcement
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 20 court decisions — leading case Federal Trade Commission v. National Business Consultants, Inc. (2004)
Most recently applied in Bluewave Healthcare v. United States (March 2017)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The court may at any time on its own initiative or the motion of any interested person, and after such notice as it may require, make an order denying, limiting, conditioning, regulating, extending, or modifying the use of any enforcement procedure under this chapter.