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[CITE: 15USC1222]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
        CHAPTER 27--AUTOMOBILE DEALER SUITS AGAINST MANUFACTURERS
 
Sec. 1222. Authorization of suits against manufacturers; amount 
        of recovery; defenses
        
    An automobile dealer may bring suit against any automobile 
manufacturer engaged in commerce, in any district court of the United 
States in the district in which said manufacturer resides, or is found, 
or has an agent, without respect to the amount in controversy, and shall 
recover the damages by him sustained and the cost of suit by reason of 
the failure of said automobile manufacturer from and after August 8, 
1956, to act in good faith in performing or complying with any of the 
terms or provisions of the franchise, or in terminating, canceling, or 
not renewing the franchise with said dealer: Provided, That in any such 
suit the manufacturer shall not be barred from asserting in defense of 
any such action the failure of the dealer to act in good faith.

(Aug. 8, 1956, ch. 1038, Sec. 2, 70 Stat. 1125.)
