# § 217. Injunction proceedings
section 215 of this titlesection 215(a)(2) of this titlesection 255 of this title
The district courts, together with the United States District Court for the District of the Canal Zone, the District Court of the Virgin Islands, and the District Court of Guam shall have jurisdiction, for cause shown, to restrain violations of , including in the case of violations of the restraint of any withholding of payment of minimum wages or overtime compensation found by the court to be due to employees under this chapter (except sums which employees are barred from recovering, at the time of the commencement of the action to restrain the violations, by virtue of the provisions of ).
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**Source Credit**: (June 25, 1938, ch. 676, § 17, 52 Stat. 1069; Oct. 26, 1949, ch. 736, § 15, 63 Stat. 919; Pub. L. 85–231, § 1(3), Aug. 30, 1957, 71 Stat. 514; Pub. L. 86–624, § 21(c), July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 417; Pub. L. 87–30, § 12(b), May 5, 1961, 75 Stat. 74.)
## Editorial Notes
### Amendments
1961— substituted “, including in the case of violations of the restraint of any withholding of payment of minimum wages or overtime compensation found by the court to be due to employees under this chapter (except sums which employees are barred from recovering, at the time of the commencement of the action to restrain the violations, by virtue of the provisions of ” for “: , That no court shall have jurisdiction, in any action brought by the Administrator to restrain such violations, to order the payment to employees of unpaid minimum wages or unpaid overtime compensation or an additional equal amount as liquidated damages in such action”.
1960— struck out reference to the District Court for Territory of Alaska.
1957— included the District Court of Guam within the enumeration of courts having jurisdiction of injunction proceedings.
1949—Act , included a more precise description of United States courts having jurisdiction to restrain violations and inserted proviso denying jurisdiction to order payment of unpaid minimum wages, overtime, and liquidated damages in injunction proceedings.
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Effective Date of 1961 Amendment
Amendment by effective upon expiration of one hundred and twenty days after , except as otherwise provided, see , set out as a note under .
### Effective Date of 1957 Amendment
Amendment by effective upon expiration of ninety days from , see , set out as a note under .
### Effective Date of 1949 Amendment
Amendment by act , effective ninety days after , see section 16(a) of act , set out as a note under .
### Termination of United States District Court for the District of the Canal Zone
For termination of the United States District Court for the District of the Canal Zone at end of the “transition period”, being the 30-month period beginning , and ending midnight , see Paragraph 5 of Article XI of the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977 and sections 2101 and 2201 to 2203 of , , , formerly classified to sections 3831 and 3841 to 3843, respectively, of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.
## Executive Documents
### Transfer of Functions
Functions relating to enforcement and administration of equal pay provisions vested by this section in Secretary of Labor transferred to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1978, § 1, 43 F.R. 19807, , set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, effective , as provided by section 1–101 of Ex. Ord. No. 12106, , 44 F.R. 1053.