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[CITE: 15USC3612]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
CHAPTER 62--CONDOMINIUM AND COOPERATIVE CONVERSION PROTECTION AND ABUSE 
                                 RELIEF
 
Sec. 3612. Concurrent State and Federal jurisdiction; venue; 
        removal of cases
        
    The district courts of the United States, the United States courts 
of any territory, and the United States District Court for the District 
of Columbia shall have jurisdiction under this chapter and, concurrent 
with State courts, of actions at law or in equity brought under this 
chapter without regard to the amount in controversy. Any such action may 
be brought in the district wherein the defendant is found or is an 
inhabitant or transacts business, or in the district where the sale took 
place, and process in such cases may be served in other districts of 
which the defendant is an inhabitant or wherever the defendant may be 
found. No case arising under this chapter and brought in any State court 
of competent jurisdiction shall be removed to any court of the United 
States, except where any officer or employee of the United States in his 
official capacity is a party.

(Pub. L. 96-399, title VI, Sec. 613, Oct. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1679.)
