Deception, FTC oversight: hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, March 26, 1984U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 - 490 páginas |
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2d Cir 9th Cir act or practice advertising AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE agency alleged amendment American Home Products Amrep analysis Aspirin believe BROYHILL Cap'n Crunch CARLEY cert Chairman Miller circulated claims Clanton Colgate-Palmolive Commis Commissioner Clanton's vote Commissioner Pertschuk Committee on Energy complaint CONGRESS THE LIBRARY consumer acting reasonably consumer protection Corp Counsel CRAWFORD D.C. Cir deception authority deception policy statement deception statement deceptive acts deceptive practices decision definition of deception denied DINGELL disclosure EASTON Energy and Commerce fact false Federal Trade Commission FTC Act GORE injury interpretation issue JAMES MILLER law of deception letter LIBRARY OF CONGRESS majority material matter misrepresentation October 14 October 21 opinion proposed purchase question quorum reasonable consumer representation request respondents rule Secretary's office Section seller SLATTERY staff standard Stat statute statutory Sterling Drug substantial number Supreme Court tendency or capacity THOMAS MILLER tion Trade Commission Act unfair violation
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Página 467 - false advertisement" means an advertisement, other than labeling, which is misleading in a material respect; and in determining whether any advertisement is misleading, there shall be taken into account (among other things) not only representations made or suggested by statement, word, design, device, sound, or any combination thereof, but also the extent to which the advertisement fails to reveal facts material in the light of such representations or material with respect to consequences which may...
Página 139 - The fact that a false statement may be obviously false to those who are trained and experienced does not change its character, nor take away its power to deceive others less experienced. There is no duty resting upon a citizen to suspect the honesty of those with whom he transacts business. Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.
Página 184 - Commission will find deception if there is a representation, omission or practice that is likely to mislead the consumer acting reasonably in the circumstances, to the consumer's detriment.
Página 339 - Commission is not limited to prohibiting the illegal practice in the precise form in which it is found to have existed in the past. If the Commission is to attain the objectives Congress envisioned, it cannot be required to confine its...
Página 384 - Whenever the Commission has reason to believe — (1) that any person, partnership, or corporation is engaged in, or is about to engage in, the dissemination or the causing of the dissemination of any advertisement...
Página 454 - The law is not made for the protection of experts, but for the public — that vast multitude which includes the ignorant, the unthinking and the credulous, who, in making purchases, do not stop to analyze, but are governed by appearances and general impressions.
Página 181 - ... the extent to which the labeling fails to reveal facts material in the light of such representations or material with respect to consequences which may result from the use of the article to which the labeling relates under the conditions of use prescribed in the labeling thereof or under such conditions of use as are customary or usual.
Página 343 - Accordingly, we vacate the judgment of the Court of Appeals and remand the case to enable that court to consider, in light of Wood v.
Página 28 - So long as we preserve a predominantly free enterprise economy, the allocation of our resources in large measure will be made through numerous private economic decisions. It is a matter of public interest that those decisions, in the aggregate, be intelligent and well informed. To this end, the free flow of commercial information is indispensable.
Página 28 - The statute is plain and direct. Its comprehensive terms condemn every statement, design, and device which may mislead or deceive. Deception may result from the use of statements not technically false or which may be literally true.