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Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 -> 59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun, verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make legal-us-code default now covers every title. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "LegalText"
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title: "15 U.S.C. § 1222"
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description: "Authorization of suits against manufacturers; amount of recovery; defenses"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 15
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title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
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chapter_number: "27"
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chapter_name: "AUTOMOBILE DEALER SUITS AGAINST MANUFACTURERS"
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section: "1222"
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citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1222"
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status: "current"
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release_point: "119-100"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc15@119-100.zip"
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source_identifier: "/us/usc/t15/s1222"
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source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-15/usc15.xml"
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text_hash: "4b34d99fc531208f64d99327e86bb3fb17a2389b3c805072f3af0d0de8aaf519"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
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confidence: "official"
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tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
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# 15 U.S.C. § 1222 - Authorization of suits against manufacturers; amount of recovery; defenses
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## Text
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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.
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(Aug. 8, 1956, ch. 1038, § 2, 70 Stat. 1125.)
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