Title 29 — Labor
Chapter 11 — Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Procedure
§ 528. Criminal contempt
Statutory text
No person shall be punished for any criminal contempt allegedly committed outside the immediate presence of the court in connection with any civil action prosecuted by the Secretary or any other person in any court of the United States under the provisions of this chapter unless the facts constituting such criminal contempt are established by the verdict of the jury in a proceeding in the district court of the United States, which jury shall be chosen and empaneled in the manner prescribed by the law governing trial juries in criminal prosecutions in the district courts of the United States.
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.
Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959
Pub. L. 86–257 title VI § 608 · 73 Stat. 519
Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 528
(Pub. L. 86–257, title VI, § 608, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 541.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 86–257, title VI, § 608, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 541.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 608. criminal contempt No person shall be punished for any criminal contempt allegedly committed outside the immediate presence of the court in connection with any civil action prosecuted by the Secretary or any other person in any court of the United States under the provisions of this Act unless the facts constituting such criminal contempt are established by the verdict of the jury in a proceeding in the district court of the United States, which jury shall be chosen and empaneled in the manner prescribed by the law governing trial juries in criminal prosecutions in the district courts of the United States.
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