Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 1 — Monopolies and Combinations in Restraint of Trade
§ 36. Recovery of damages, etc., for antitrust violations on claim against person based on official action directed by local government, or official or employee thereof acting in an official capacity
Statutory text
Prohibition in general
No damages, interest on damages, costs or attorney’s fees may be recovered under section 4, 4A, or 4C of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 15, 15a, or 15c) in any claim against a person based on any official action directed by a local government, or official or employee thereof acting in an official capacity.
Nonapplication of prohibition for cases commenced before effective date of provisions
Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to cases commenced before the effective date of this Act.
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.
Local Government Antitrust Act of 1984
Pub. L. 98–544 § 4 · 98 Stat. 2750
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 36
(Pub. L. 98–544, § 4, Oct. 24, 1984, 98 Stat. 2750.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 98–544, § 4, Oct. 24, 1984, 98 Stat. 2750.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. (a) No damages, interest on damages, costs or attorney’s fees may be recovered under section 4, 4A, or 4C of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 15,15a, or 15c) in any claim against a person based on any official action directed by a local government, or official or employee thereof acting in an official capacity. (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to cases commenced before the effective date of this Act.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
For effective date of this Act, referred to in subsec. (b), see Effective Date note below.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective thirty days before , see section 6 of Pub. L. 98–544, set out as a note under section 34 of this title.