---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 412"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "412"
heading: "Civil action for infringement of rights; jurisdiction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/412"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Procedure"
  - "Subchapter II — Bill of Rights of Members of Labor Organizations"
---

# §412. Civil action for infringement of rights; jurisdiction


Any [person](/usc/29/402.md?p=d) whose rights secured by the provisions of this subchapter have been infringed by any violation of this subchapter may bring a civil action in a [district court of the United States](/usc/29/402.md?p=r) for such relief (including injunctions) as may be appropriate. Any such action against a [labor organization](/usc/29/402.md?p=i) shall be brought in the [district court of the United States](/usc/29/402.md?p=r) for the district where the alleged violation occurred, or where the principal office of such [labor organization](/usc/29/402.md?p=i) is located.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–257, title I, § 102, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 523.)