Sec. 301. ### (a)
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## Sec. 301 ###
(a)Suits for violation of contracts between an employer and a labor organization representing employees in an industry affecting commerce as defined in this Act, 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 or without regard to the citizenship of the parties. ###
(b)Any labor organization which represents employees in an industry affecting commerce as defined in this Act and any employer whose activities affect commerce as defined in this Act shall be bound by the act of its agents. Any such labor organization may sue or be sued as an entity and in behalf of the employees whom it reperesents in the courts of the United States. Any money judgment against a labor organization in a district court of the United States shall be enforceable only against the organization as an entity and against its assets, and shall not be enforceable against any individual member or his assets. ###
(c)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 orgnization maintains its principal office, or
(2)in any district in which its duly authorized officers or agents are engaged in representing or acting for employee members. ###
(d)The service of summons, subpena, or other legal process of any court of the United Sates upon an officer or agent of a labor organization, in his capacity as such, shall constitute service upon the labor organization. ###
(e)For the purposes of this section, in determining whether any person is acting as an “agent” of another person so as to make such other person responsible for his acts, the question of whether the specific acts performed were actually authorized or subsequently ratified shall not be controlling. **[**[29 U.S.C. 185](/us/usc/t29/s185)**]** Enacted June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title III, sec. 301, 61 Stat. 156.
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