§ 1222. — Authorization of suits against manufacturers; amount of recovery; defenses.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 15USC1222]
TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 27--AUTOMOBILE DEALER SUITS AGAINST MANUFACTURERS
Sec. 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.
(Aug. 8, 1956, ch. 1038, Sec. 2, 70 Stat. 1125.)
