; and (C) order and take depositions, issue subpoenas requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of documents or other evidence, and order responses to written interrogatories. (b) Appellate division proceedings (1) In general Except as provided by rules established by the appellate division, proceedings before the appellate division shall be heard and decided by immigration appeals judges sitting in panels of three such judges or en banc, and decisions shall be made by majority vote. Any decision of a panel may be reconsidered by the court sitting en banc. (2) Precedence in appellate division The chief judge of the Immigration Courts shall have precedence and preside at any session of the appellate division that such judge attends. Other immigration appeals judges shall have precedence and preside in the appellate division according to the seniority of their original commissions and, for judges whose commissions bear the same date, according to seniority in age. (c) Contempt authority (1) In general Immigration judges shall have the authority, to sanction by civil money penalty, any individual whose action or inaction obstructs the administration of justice or is otherwise in contempt of the lawful authority of such judge or the Immigration Courts. (2) Notice No individual may be sanctioned for contempt under paragraph (1) without first receiving notice of the charges and an opportunity to rebut such charges. (d) Assistance to the court The Immigration Courts shall have such assistance in carrying out its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command, including nationwide service of a subpoena, as is available to a court of the United States, as that term is defined in section 451 of title 28, United States Code. The United States marshal for a district in which the immigration trial judge is sitting shall, if requested by the presiding judge, attend any court proceeding in that district, and may otherwise provide, when requested by the chief trial judge of that immigration