42 USC § 12007 - No antitrust immunity or defenses

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title: "42 USC § 12007 - No antitrust immunity or defenses"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "12007"
section_name: "No antitrust immunity or defenses"
chapter_number: 125
chapter_name: "RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY TECHNOLOGY COMPETITIVENESS"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 101–218, § 10, Dec. 11, 1989, 103 Stat. 1869.)"
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# § 12007. No antitrust immunity or defenses

section 12 of title 15

Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to convey to any person, partnership, corporation, or other entity immunity from civil or criminal liability under any antitrust law or to create defenses to actions under any antitrust law. As used in this section, “antitrust laws” means those Acts set forth in .

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 101–218, § 10, Dec. 11, 1989, 103 Stat. 1869.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning , , , known as the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Technology Competitiveness Act of 1989, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under  and Tables.