---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 68e"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "68e"
heading: "Condemnation and injunction proceedings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/68e"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Federal Trade Commission; Promotion of Export Trade and Prevention of Unfair Methods of Competition"
  - "Subchapter III — Labeling of Wool Products"
---

# §68e. Condemnation and injunction proceedings

- (a) **Grounds for condemnation; disposition of merchandise—** Any [wool products](/usc/15/68.md?p=d) shall be liable to be proceeded against in the district court of the United States for the district in which found, and to be seized for confiscation by process of libel for condemnation, if the [Commission](/usc/15/68.md?p=e) has reasonable cause to believe such [wool products](/usc/15/68.md?p=d) are being manufactured or held for shipment, or shipped, or held for sale or exchange after shipment, in [commerce](/usc/15/68.md?p=g) in violation of the provisions of this subchapter, and if after notice from the [Commission](/usc/15/68.md?p=e) the provisions of this subchapter with respect to said products are not shown to be complied with. Proceedings in such libel cases shall conform as nearly as may be to suits in rem in admiralty, and may be brought by the [Commission](/usc/15/68.md?p=e).

  If such [wool products](/usc/15/68.md?p=d) are condemned by the court, they shall be disposed of, in the discretion of the court, by destruction; by sale; by delivery to the owner or [claimant](/usc/15/7a.md?p=4) thereof upon payment of legal costs and charges and upon execution of good and sufficient bond to the effect that such [wool products](/usc/15/68.md?p=d) will not be disposed of until properly stamped, tagged, labeled, or otherwise identified under the provisions of this subchapter; or by such charitable disposition as the court may deem proper. If such [wool products](/usc/15/68.md?p=d) are disposed of by sale, the proceeds, less legal costs and charges, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States.

- (b) **Grounds for temporary injunction or restraining order; issuance without bond—** Whenever the [Commission](/usc/15/68.md?p=e) has reason to believe that—
  - (1) Any [person](/usc/15/68.md?p=a) is violating, or is about to violate, sections [68a](/usc/15/68a.md), [68c](/usc/15/68c.md), [68f](/usc/15/68f.md), or [68g](/usc/15/68g.md) of this title, and that
  - (2) It would be to the public interest to enjoin such violation until complaint is issued by the [Commission](/usc/15/68.md?p=e) under the [Federal Trade Commission Act](/usc/15/68.md?p=f) and such complaint dismissed by the [Commission](/usc/15/68.md?p=e) or set aside by the court on review, or until order to cease and desist made thereon by the [Commission](/usc/15/68.md?p=e) has become final within the meaning of the [Federal Trade Commission Act](/usc/15/68.md?p=f),

  the [Commission](/usc/15/68.md?p=e) may bring suit in the district court of the United States or in the United States court of any [Territory](/usc/15/68.md?p=h), for the district or [Territory](/usc/15/68.md?p=h) in which such [person](/usc/15/68.md?p=a) resides or transacts business, to enjoin such violation, and upon proper showing a temporary injunction or restraining order shall be granted without bond.


## Source credit

(Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 871, § 7, 54 Stat. 1131.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of Federal Trade Commission, with certain exceptions, to Chairman of such Commission, see Reorg. Plan No. 8 of 1950, § 1, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 1264, set out under section 41 of this title.