29 U.S.C. § 1851
Section 1851 · Criminal sanctions
This is the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 23 I. & N. Dec. 201 - SOTELO (2001)
Most recently applied in 961 F. Supp. 2d 1164 - Perez v. Blue Mountain Farms (August 2013)
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.
Any person who willfully and knowingly violates this chapter or any regulation under this chapter shall be fined not more than $1,000 or sentenced to prison for a term not to exceed one year, or both. Upon conviction for any subsequent violation of this chapter or any regulation under this chapter, the defendant shall be fined not more than $10,000 or sentenced to prison for a term not to exceed three years, or both.
If a farm labor contractor who commits a violation of paragraph (1) or (2) of section 1324a(a) of title 8 has been refused issuance or renewal of, or has failed to obtain, a certificate of registration or is a farm labor contractor whose certificate has been suspended or revoked, the contractor shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $10,000 or sentenced to prison for a term not to exceed three years, or both.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Amendments
1986—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99–603 substituted “paragraph (1) or (2) of section 1324a(a) of title 8” for “section 1816 of this title”.
Effective Date of 1986 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 99–603 applicable to employment, recruitment, referral, or utilization of services of an individual occurring on or after first day of seventh month beginning after Nov. 6, 1986, except that if 8 U.S.C. 1324a is terminated as of a date under 8 U.S.C. 1324a(l), the amendment by Pub. L. 99–603 is no longer applicable, see section 101(b)(2) of Pub. L. 99–603, as amended, set out as a note under section 1802 of this title.