Sec. 1442. Federal officers or agencies sued or prosecuted
- (a) A civil action or criminal prosecution commenced in a
State court against any of the following may be removed by them to the
district court of the United States for the district and division embracing
the place wherein it is pending:
- (1) The United States or any agency thereof or any
officer (or
any person acting under that officer) of the United States
or of
any agency thereof, sued in an official or individual capacity
for any act under color of such office or on account of any
right,
title or authority claimed under any Act of Congress for
the
apprehension or punishment of criminals or the collection of
the
revenue.
- (2) A property holder whose title is derived from any
such
officer, where such action or prosecution affects the validity of
any law of the United States.
- (3) Any officer of the courts of the United States, for
any act
under color of office or in the performance of his duties;
- (4) Any officer of either House of Congress, for any act
in the
discharge of his official duty under an order of such House.
- (b) A personal action commenced in any State court by an
alien against any citizen of a State who is, or at the time the alleged action
accrued was, a civil officer of the United States and is a nonresident of such
State, wherein jurisdiction is obtained by the State court by personal service
of process, may be removed by the defendant to the district court of the
United States for the district and division in which the defendant was served
with process.
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