§ 217. Injunction proceedings

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. 1938

   Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

   Pub. L. 75–676 § 17 · 52 Stat. 1060

   Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 217

   June 25, 1938, ch. 676, § 17, 52 Stat. 1069

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   June 25, 1938, ch. 676, § 17, 52 Stat. 1069

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 17. injunction proceedings The district courts of the United States and the United Injunction proceedings. States courts of the Territories and possessions shall have jurisdiction, for cause shown, and subject to the provisions of section 20 (relating to notice to opposite party) of the Act entitled “An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes”, approved October 15, 1914, as amended (U. S. C., 38 Stat. 737. 28 U. S. C. § 381. 1934 edition, title 28, sec. 381), to restrain violations of section 15.

2. 1957

   Pub. L. 85–231 § 1(3) · 71 Stat. 514

   Changed · 29 U.S.C. § 217

   Pub. L. 85–231 included the District Court of Guam within the enumeration of courts having jurisdiction of injunction proceedings

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 85–231 included the District Court of Guam within the enumeration of courts having jurisdiction of injunction proceedings.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (1) Section 13 of such Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection (f): “(f) The provisions of sections 6, 7, 11, and 12 shall not apply with respect to any employee whose services during the workweek are performed in a workplace within a foreign country or within territory under the jurisdiction of the United States other than the following: a State of the United States; the District of Columbia; Alaska; Hawaii; Puerto Rico; the Virgin Islands; outer Continental Shelf lands defined in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (ch. 345, 67 43 USC 1331. Stat. 462); American Samoa; Guam; Wake Island; and the Canal Zone.”

3. 1960

   Hawaii Omnibus Act

   Pub. L. 86–624 § 21(c) · 74 Stat. 411

   Struck · 29 U.S.C. § 217

   Pub. L. 86–624 struck out reference to the District Court for Territory of Alaska

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 86–624 struck out reference to the District Court for Territory of Alaska.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (c) Section 17 of the Fair Labor Standards Act, as amended, is further 63 Stat. 919. 29 USC 217. amended by striking out the words “the District Court for the Territory of Alaska.”.

4. 1961

   Pub. L. 87–30 § 12(b) · 75 Stat. 65

   Substituted · 29 U.S.C. § 217

   Pub. L. 87–30 substituted “, including in the case of violations of section 215(a)(2) of this title the restraint of any withholding of payment of minimum wages or overtime compensation found by the court to be due to employees under this chapter (except sums which employees are barred from recovering, at the time of the commencement of the action to restrain the violations, by virtue of the provisions of section 255 of this title” for “: Provided, That no court shall have jurisdiction, in any action brought by the Administrator to restrain such violations, to order the payment to employees of unpaid minimum wages or unpaid overtime compensation or an additional equal amount as liquidated damages in such action”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 87–30 substituted “, including in the case of violations of section 215(a)(2) of this title the restraint of any withholding of payment of minimum wages or overtime compensation found by the court to be due to employees under this chapter (except sums which employees are barred from recovering, at the time of the commencement of the action to restrain the violations, by virtue of the provisions of section 255 of this title” for “: Provided, That no court shall have jurisdiction, in any action brought by the Administrator to restrain such violations, to order the payment to employees of unpaid minimum wages or unpaid overtime compensation or an additional equal amount as liquidated damages in such action”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (b) Section 17 of such Act is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 17. “injunction proceedings The district courts, together with the United States District Court for the District of the Canal Zone, the District Court of the Virgin Islands, and the District Court of Guam shall have jurisdiction, 52 Stat. 1068. 29 USC 215. for cause shown, to restrain violations of section 15, including in the case of violations of section 15(a)(2) the restraint of any withholding of payment of minimum wages or overtime compensation found by the court to be due to employees under this Act (except sums which employees are barred from recovering, at the time of the commencement of the action to restrain the violations, by virtue of the provisions of section 6 of the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947).” 61 Stat. 87. 29 USC 255.

   Effective date note
   Amendment by Pub. L. 87–30 effective upon expiration of one hundred and twenty days after May 5, 1961, except as otherwise provided, see section 14 of Pub. L. 87–30, set out as a note under section 203 of this title.

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