Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 1 — Monopolies and Combinations in Restraint of Trade
§ 22. District in which to sue corporation
Statutory text
Any suit, action, or proceeding under the antitrust laws against a corporation may be brought not only in the judicial district whereof it is an inhabitant, but also in any district wherein it may be found or transacts business; and all process in such cases may be served in the district of which it is an inhabitant, or wherever it may be found.
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.
Pub. L. 63–323 § 12 · 38 Stat. 730
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 22
(Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 12, 38 Stat. 736.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 12, 38 Stat. 736.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 12. That any suit, action, or proceeding under the antitrust laws against a corporation may be brought not only in the judicial district whereof it rs an inhabitant, but also in any district wherein it Service of process. may be found or transacts business; and all process in such cases may be served in the district of which it is an inhabitant, or wherever it may be found.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The antitrust laws, referred to in text, are defined in section 12 of this title.
Credits
(Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 12, 38 Stat. 736.)