2012 US Code
Title 50 - War and National Defense
Appendix (§§ 1 - 2420)
DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT OF 1950 (§§ 2061 - 2172)
ACT SEPT. 8, 1950, CH. 932, 64 STAT. 798 (§§ 2061 - 2172)
Title VII - GENERAL PROVISIONS (§§ 2151 - 2172)
Section 2157 - Liability for compliance with invalid regulations; discrimination against orders or contracts affected by priorities or allocations

No person shall be held liable for damages or penalties for any act or failure to act resulting directly or indirectly from compliance with a rule, regulation, or order issued pursuant to this Act [sections 2061 to 2170, 2171, and 2172 of this Appendix], notwithstanding that any such rule, regulation, or order shall thereafter be declared by judicial or other competent authority to be invalid. No person shall discriminate against orders or contracts to which priority is assigned or for which materials or facilities are allocated under title I of this Act [sections 2071 to 2078 of this Appendix] or under any rule, regulation, or order issued thereunder, by charging higher prices or by imposing different terms and conditions for such orders or contracts than for other generally comparable orders or contracts, or in any other manner.

(Sept. 8, 1950, ch. 932, title VII, §707, 64 Stat. 818; June 30, 1952, ch. 530, title I, §118, 66 Stat. 306.)

1952—Act June 30, 1952, in first sentence struck out “his” before “compliance with”.