Assault on process server
United States Code
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- 2026Smart v. The Professional Group
- 2026Pollard N.D. Ind.
- 2025West v. Landau E.D. Mich.
- 2025Horner v. Michigan, State of E.D. Mich.
- 2025Cassaday D. Kan.
- 2025Walz v. State of California D. Utah
- 2025Lui v. United States E.D.N.Y
- 2024Moore v. Scott D. Maryland
- 2024GOK v. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA E.D. Pa.
- 2024United States v. Troy Sargent D.C. Cir.
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Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs, resists, or opposes any officer of the United States, or other person duly authorized, in serving, or attempting to serve or execute, any legal or judicial writ or process of any court of the United States, or United States magistrate judge; or Whoever assaults, beats, or wounds any officer or other person duly authorized, knowing him to be such officer, or other person so duly authorized, in serving or executing any such writ, rule, order, process, warrant, or other legal or judicial writ or process— Shall, except as otherwise provided by law, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. (Source: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 769; Pub. L. 90–578, title IV, § 402(b)(2), Oct. 17, 1968, 82 Stat. 1118; Pub. L. 101–650, title III, § 321, Dec. 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5117; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(F), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.))