15 U.S.C. § 24
Section 24 · Liability of directors and agents of corporation
This is § 14 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 26 court decisions — leading case United States v. Dotterweich (1943)
Most recently applied in City Select Auto Sales Inc. v. David Randall Assocs., Inc. (March 2018)
How often courts cite this section
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.
Whenever a corporation shall violate any of the penal provisions of the antitrust laws, such violation shall be deemed to be also that of the individual directors, officers, or agents of such corporation who shall have authorized, ordered, or done any of the acts constituting in whole or in part such violation, and such violation shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and upon conviction therefor of any such director, officer, or agent he shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding $5,000 or by imprisonment for not exceeding one year, or by both, in the discretion of the court.
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References in Text
The antitrust laws, referred to in text, are defined in section 12 of this title.