15 U.S.C. § 15d — Measurement of damages

This section is a single, undivided provision. This section applies to lawsuits brought under section 15c(a)(1), where a court has already found that a defendant agreed to fix prices in violation of sections 1 to 7 of this title. In that kind of case, damages don't have to be proven person-by-person. Instead, the court can let damages be proven and calculated in the aggregate — for the whole group at once — using statistical or sampling methods, by calculating the total illegal overcharges, or through any other reasonable method of estimating total damages that the court, in its discretion, allows.