§ 52. — Statutory restriction of injunctive relief.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 29USC52]
TITLE 29--LABOR
CHAPTER 5--LABOR DISPUTES; MEDIATION AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
Sec. 52. Statutory restriction of injunctive relief
No restraining order or injunction shall be granted by any court of
the United States, or a judge or the judges thereof, in any case between
an employer and employees, or between employers and employees, or
between employees, or between persons employed and persons seeking
employment, involving, or growing out of, a dispute concerning terms or
conditions of employment, unless necessary to prevent irreparable injury
to property, or to a property right, of the party making the
application, for which injury there is no adequate remedy at law, and
such property or property right must be described with particularity in
the application, which must be in writing and sworn to by the applicant
or by his agent or attorney.
And no such restraining order or injunction shall prohibit any
person or persons, whether singly or in concert, from terminating any
relation of employment, or from ceasing to perform any work or labor, or
from recommending, advising, or persuading others by peaceful means so
to do; or from attending at any place where any such person or persons
may lawfully be, for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or
communicating information, or from peacefully persuading any person to
work or to abstain from working; or from ceasing to patronize or to
employ any party to such dispute, or from recommending, advising, or
persuading others by peaceful and lawful means so to do; or from paying
or giving to, or withholding from, any person engaged in such dispute,
any strike benefits or other moneys or things of value; or from
peaceably assembling in a lawful manner, and for lawful purposes; or
from doing any act or thing which might lawfully be done in the absence
of such dispute by any party thereto; nor shall any of the acts
specified in this paragraph be considered or held to be violations of
any law of the United States.
(Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, Sec. 20, 38 Stat. 738.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 53, 186 of this title; title
18 section 1951; title 40 section 559; title 42 section 2135; title 47
section 606.
