Popular Name Statutized?:
N
Type:
Case
Date Enacted:
Monday, September 2, 1957
Short Title:
NO short title
Classification:
18 USC 3500
PL:
85-269
Statute At Large:
71 Stat 595
Named For?:
Named for Clinton Jencks, a union organizer whose appeal to the Supreme Court (in Jencks v. US, 353 US 657 (1957)) spurred Congress to pass a law requiring prosecutors to produce a verbatim statement or report made by government witnesses in federal criminal trials.
Interesting Part Statutized?:
Y
Notes:
name not statutized; BUT referred to as "Jencks Act" in notes by the Advisory Committee on Rules in the 1983 FRCP revisions