§ 7265. Contempt authority; assistance to the Court

• (a) The Court shall have power to punish by fine or imprisonment such contempt of its authority as—
  • (1) misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice;
  • (2) misbehavior of any of its officers in their official transactions; or
  • (3) disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command.
• (b) The Court shall have such assistance in the carrying out of its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command as is available to a court of the United States. The United States marshal for a district in which the Court is sitting shall, if requested by the chief judge of the Court, attend any session of the Court in that district.