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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 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.
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