Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 29 : Section 217


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 217. Injunction proceedings

      The district courts, together with the United States District
    Court for the District of the Canal Zone, the District Court of the
    Virgin Islands, and the District Court of Guam shall have
    jurisdiction, for cause shown, to restrain violations of section
    215 of this title, including in the case of violations of section
    215(a)(2) of this title the restraint of any withholding of payment
    of minimum wages or overtime compensation found by the court to be
    due to employees under this chapter (except sums which employees
    are barred from recovering, at the time of the commencement of the
    action to restrain the violations, by virtue of the provisions of
    section 255 of this title).



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