12 U.S.C. § 1975
Section 1975 · Civil actions by persons injured; jurisdiction and venue; amount of recovery
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 46 court decisions — leading case Marek v. Chesny (1985)
Most recently applied in Park Bank v. Roger E. Westburg (July 2013)
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Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Any person who is injured in his business or property by reason of anything forbidden in section 1972 of this title may sue therefor in any district court of the United States in which the defendant resides or is found or has an agent, without regard to the amount in controversy, and shall be entitled to recover three times the amount of the damages sustained by him, and the cost of suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee.