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15 U.S.C. § 9 — Jurisdiction of courts; duty of United States attorneys; procedure
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The several district courts of the United States are invested with jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of [section 8 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section8&num=0&edition=prelim); and it shall be the duty of the several United States attorneys, in their respective districts, under the direction of the Attorney General, to institute proceedings in equity to prevent and restrain such violations. Such proceedings may be by way of petitions setting forth the case and praying that such violations shall be enjoined or otherwise prohibited. When the parties complained of shall have been duly notified of such petition the court shall proceed, as soon as may be, to the hearing and determination of the case; and pending such petition and before final decree, the court may at any time make such temporary restraining order or prohibition as shall be deemed just in the premises.
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The several district courts of the United States are invested with jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of [section 8 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section8&num=0&edition=prelim); and it shall be the duty of the several United States attorneys, in their respective districts, under the direction of the Attorney General, to institute proceedings in equity to prevent and restrain such violations. Such proceedings may be by way of petitions setting forth the case and praying that such violations shall be enjoined or otherwise prohibited. When the parties complained of shall have been duly notified of such petition the court shall proceed, as soon as may be, to the hearing and determination of the case; and pending such petition and before final decree, the court may at any time make such temporary restraining order or prohibition as shall be deemed just in the premises.
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Every combination, conspiracy, trust, agreement, or contract is declared to be contrary to public policy, illegal, and void when the same is made by or between two or more persons or corporations, either of whom, as agent or principal, is engaged in importing any article from any foreign country into the United States, and when such combination, conspiracy, trust, agreement, or contract is intended to operate in restraint of lawful trade, or free competition in lawful trade or commerce, or to increase the market price in any part of the United States of any article or articles imported or intended to be imported into the United States, or of any manufacture into which such imported article enters or is intended to enter. Every person who shall be engaged in the importation of goods or any commodity from any foreign country in violation of this section, or who shall combine or conspire with another to violate the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in any court of the United States such person shall be fined in a sum not less than $100 and not exceeding $5,000, and shall be further punished by imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, for a term not less than three months nor exceeding twelve months.
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Whenever it shall appear to the court before which any proceeding under [section 9 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section9&num=0&edition=prelim) may be pending, that the ends of justice require that other parties should be brought before the court, the court may cause them to be summoned, whether they reside in the district in which the court is held or not; and subpoenas to that end may be served in any district by the marshal thereof.
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TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE
§ 12
(Pub. L. 108–237, title II, § 216, as added Pub. L.
116–257, § 2, Dec. 23, 2020, 134 Stat. 1147.)
§ 8. Trusts in restraint of import trade illegal;
penalty
Every combination, conspiracy, trust, agree-
ment, or contract is declared to be contrary to
public policy, illegal, and void when the same is
made by or between two or more persons or cor-
porations, either of whom, as agent or principal,
is engaged in importing any article from any
foreign country into the United States, and
when
such
combination,
conspiracy,
trust,
agreement, or contract is intended to operate in
restraint of lawful trade, or free competition in
lawful trade or commerce, or to increase the
market price in any part of the United States of
any article or articles imported or intended to
be imported into the United States, or of any
manufacture into which such imported article
enters or is intended to enter. Every person who
shall be engaged in the importation of goods or
any commodity from any foreign country in vio-
lation of this section, or who shall combine or
conspire with another to violate the same, is
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof in any court of the United States such
person shall be fined in a sum not less than $100
and not exceeding $5,000, and shall be further
punished by imprisonment, in the discretion of
the court, for a term not less than three months
nor exceeding twelve months.
(Aug. 27, 1894, ch. 349, § 73, 28 Stat. 570; Feb. 12,
1913, ch. 40, 37 Stat. 667.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1913—Act Feb. 12, 1913, inserted ‘‘as agent or prin-
cipal’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
SHORT TITLE
Section 77, formerly § 78, of act Aug. 27, 1894, as added
by Pub. L. 94–435, title III,
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