The Court of Claims, referred to in subsec. (c), and the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals were merged effective Oct. 1, 1982, into a new United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by
Pub. L. 97–164, Apr. 2, 1982,
96 Stat. 25, which also created a United States Claims Court [now United States Court of Federal Claims] that inherited the trial jurisdiction of the Court of Claims. See sections
48,
171 et seq., 791 et seq., and 1491 et seq. of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.