---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 70f"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "70f"
heading: "Injunction proceedings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/70f"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Federal Trade Commission; Promotion of Export Trade and Prevention of Unfair Methods of Competition"
  - "Subchapter V — Textile Fiber Products Identification"
---

# §70f. Injunction proceedings


Whenever the [Commission](/usc/15/70.md?p=j) has reason to believe—

- (a) that any [person](/usc/15/70.md?p=a) is doing, or is about to do, an act which by section [70a](/usc/15/70a.md), [70c](/usc/15/70c.md), [70d](/usc/15/70d.md), [70g](/usc/15/70g.md), or [70h(b)](/usc/15/70h.md?p=b) of this title is declared to be unlawful; and
- (b) that it would be to the public interest to enjoin the doing of such act until complaint is issued by the [Commission](/usc/15/70.md?p=j) under the Federal Trade Commission Act [[15 U.S.C. 41](/usc/15/41.md) et seq.] and such complaint is dismissed by the [Commission](/usc/15/70.md?p=j) or set aside by the court on review or until an order to cease and desist made thereon by the [Commission](/usc/15/70.md?p=j) has become final within the meaning of the Federal Trade Commission Act,

the [Commission](/usc/15/70.md?p=j) may bring suit in the district court of the United States or in the United States court of any [Territory](/usc/15/70.md?p=l), for the district or [Territory](/usc/15/70.md?p=l) in which such [person](/usc/15/70.md?p=a) resides or transacts business, to enjoin the doing of such act and upon proper showing a temporary injunction or restraining order shall be granted without bond.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–897, § 8, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1721.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Federal Trade Commission Act, referred to in text, is act Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, 38 Stat. 717, which is classified generally to subchapter I (§ 41 et seq.) of this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 58 of this title and Tables.