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[CITE: 15USC31]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
      CHAPTER 1--MONOPOLIES AND COMBINATIONS IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE
 
Sec. 31. Panama Canal closed to violators of antitrust laws

    No vessel permitted to engage in the coastwise or foreign trade of 
the United States shall be permitted to enter or pass through the Panama 
Canal if such ship is owned, chartered, operated, or controlled by any 
person or company which is doing business in violation of the provisions 
of sections 1 to 11 of this title or of any other Act of Congress 
amending or supplementing the same. The question of fact may be 
determined by the judgment of any court of the United States of 
competent jurisdiction in any cause pending before it to which the 
owners or operators of such ship are parties. Suit may be brought by any 
shipper or by the Attorney General of the United States.

(Aug. 24, 1912, ch. 390, Sec. 11, 37 Stat. 567.)
