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Title 29 — Labor

Chapter 6 — Jurisdiction of Courts in Matters Affecting Employer and Employee

§ 106. Responsibility of officers and members of associations or their organizations for unlawful acts of individual officers, members, and agents

Statutory text

No officer or member of any association or organization, and no association or organization participating or interested in a labor dispute, shall be held responsible or liable in any court of the United States for the unlawful acts of individual officers, members, or agents, except upon clear proof of actual participation in, or actual authorization of, such acts, or of ratification of such acts after actual knowledge thereof.

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. Pub. L. 72–90 § 6 · 47 Stat. 70

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 106

    (Mar. 23, 1932, ch. 90, § 6, 47 Stat. 71.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 23, 1932, ch. 90, § 6, 47 Stat. 71.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 6. No officer or member of any association or organization, Organization officers not liable for acts of individual members. and no association or organization participating or interested in a labor dispute, shall be held responsible or liable in any court of the United States for the unlawful acts of individual officers, members, or agents, except upon clear proof of actual participation in, or If participation or ratification. actual authorization of, such acts, or of ratification of such acts after actual knowledge thereof.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Mar. 23, 1932, ch. 90, § 6, 47 Stat. 71.)

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