---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 101"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "101"
heading: "Issuance of restraining orders and injunctions; limitation; public policy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/101"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Jurisdiction of Courts in Matters Affecting Employer and Employee"
---

# §101. Issuance of restraining orders and injunctions; limitation; public policy


No [court of the United States](/usc/29/113.md?p=d), as defined in this chapter, shall have jurisdiction to issue any restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction in a case involving or growing out of a [labor dispute](/usc/29/113.md?p=c), except in a strict conformity with the provisions of this chapter; nor shall any such restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction be issued contrary to the public policy declared in this chapter.


## Source credit

(Mar. 23, 1932, ch. 90, § 1, 47 Stat. 70.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Act Mar. 23, 1932, ch. 90, 47 Stat. 70, which enacted this chapter, is popularly known as the “Norris-LaGuardia Act”.