Hobbs Act Amendment of 1979

Summary

Hobbs Act Amendment of 1979 - Establishes maximum criminal penalties of 25 years imprisonment and/or a $10,000 fine for anyone who obstructs, affects, or interferes with commerce by willfully injuring, damaging, burning, or destroying to the value of $2,000 or more any real or personal property of any person at or near any place where work or business of an employer or owner is carried on, or where such employer or owner transports, stores, or maintains property for business or other purposes. Stipulates that such violation, as well as the offense of interfering with commerce by extortion, may be committed in the course of a legitimate labor dispute.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 15 January 1979

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