---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 23"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "23"
heading: "Suits by United States; subpoenas for witnesses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/23"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Monopolies and Combinations in Restraint of Trade"
---

# §23. Suits by United States; subpoenas for witnesses


In any suit, action, or proceeding brought by or on behalf of the United States subpoenas for witnesses who are required to attend a court of the United States in any judicial district in any case, civil or criminal, arising under the [antitrust laws](/usc/15/37a.md?p=1) may run into any other district: Provided, That in civil cases no writ of subpoena shall issue for witnesses living out of the district in which the court is held at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of holding the same without the permission of the trial court being first had upon proper application and cause shown.


## Source credit

(Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, § 13, 38 Stat. 736.)

## Notes

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### References in Text

The antitrust laws, referred to in text, are defined in section 12 of this title.