§ 23. Suits by United States; subpoenas for witnesses

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.

1. 1914

   Pub. L. 63–323 § 13 · 38 Stat. 730

   Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 23

   (Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 13, 38 Stat. 736.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 13, 38 Stat. 736.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 13. That in any suit, action, or proceeding brought by or on behalf of the United States subpoenas for witnesses who are required to attend a court of the United States in any judicial district in any case, civil or criminal, arising under the antitrust laws may run into Proviso. Witnesses In civil suits. any other district: Provided, That in civil cases no writ of subpoena shall issue for witnesses living out of the district in which the court is held at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of holding the same without the permission of the trial court being first had upon proper application and cause shown.

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