Title 12 — Banks and Banking
Chapter 22 — Tying Arrangements
§ 1975. Civil actions by persons injured; jurisdiction and venue; amount of recovery
Statutory text
Any person who is injured in his business or property by reason of anything forbidden in section 1972 of this title may sue therefor in any district court of the United States in which the defendant resides or is found or has an agent, without regard to the amount in controversy, and shall be entitled to recover three times the amount of the damages sustained by him, and the cost of suit, including a reasonable attorney’s fee.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Bank Holding Company Act Amendments of 1970
Pub. L. 91–607 title I § 106(e) · 84 Stat. 1760
Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 1975
(Pub. L. 91–607, title I, § 106(e), Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1767.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–607, title I, § 106(e), Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1767.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(e) Any person who is injured in his business or property by reason Treble damage suits. of anything forbidden in subsection (b) may sue therefor in any district court of the United States in which the defendant resides or is found or has an agent, without regard to the amount in controversy, and shall be entitled to recover three times the amount of the damages sustained by him, and the cost of suit, including a reasonable attorney’s fee.
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