Legal Opinion
United States v. Alpine Industries, Inc. And William J. Converse
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 26, 2003No. 01-5759PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Per curiam
Alpine Industries, Inc. and William J. Converse, Alpine’s President and Chief Executive Officer, (collectively referred to as Alpine) appeal a judgment levied against the company in an enforcement action brought by the government for violating a Federal Trade Commission Consent Order (the Consent Order). The Consent Order forbade the company, an organization engaged in marketing and distributing air-cleaning devices, from making product claims without the support of competent and reliable scientific evidence. The case was bifurcated into a liability phase, which was tried in front of a jury…
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