§ 1208. — Suits.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 39USC1208]
TITLE 39--POSTAL SERVICE
PART II--PERSONNEL
CHAPTER 12--EMPLOYEE-MANAGEMENT AGREEMENTS
Sec. 1208. Suits
(a) The courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction with
respect to actions brought by the National Labor Relations Board under
this chapter to the same extent that they have jurisdiction with respect
to actions under title 29.
(b) Suits for violation of contracts between the Postal Service and
a labor organization representing Postal Service employees, or between
any such labor organizations, may be brought in any district court of
the United States having jurisdiction of the parties, without respect to
the amount in controversy.
(c) A labor organization and the Postal Service shall be bound by
the authorized acts of their agents. Any labor organization may sue or
be sued as an entity and in behalf of the employees whom it represents
in the courts of the United States. Any money judgment against a labor
organization in a district court of the United States shall be
enforcible only against the organization as an entity and against its
assets, and shall not be enforcible against any individual member or his
assets.
(d) For the purposes of actions and proceedings by or against labor
organizations in the district courts of the United States, district
courts shall be deemed to have jurisdiction of a labor organization (1)
in the district in which such organization maintains its principal
offices, or (2) in any district in which its duly authorized officers or
agents are engaged in representing or acting for employee members.
(e) The service of summons, subpena, or other legal process of any
court of the United States upon an officer or agent of a labor
organization, in his capacity as such, shall constitute service upon the
labor organization.
(Pub. L. 91-375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 736.)
