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[CITE: 42USC2000h-2]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                        CHAPTER 21--CIVIL RIGHTS
 
                 SUBCHAPTER IX--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 2000h-2. Intervention by Attorney General; denial of equal 
        protection on account of race, color, religion, sex or national 
        origin
        
    Whenever an action has been commenced in any court of the United 
States seeking relief from the denial of equal protection of the laws 
under the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution on account of race, 
color, religion, sex or national origin, the Attorney General for or in 
the name of the United States may intervene in such action upon timely 
application if the Attorney General certifies that the case is of 
general public importance. In such action the United States shall be 
entitled to the same relief as if it had instituted the action.

(Pub. L. 88-352, title IX, Sec. 902, July 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 266; Pub. L. 
92-318, title IX, Sec. 906(a), June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 375.)


                               Amendments

    1972--Pub. L. 92-318 inserted ``sex'' after ``religion,''.
