Legal Opinion
General Finance Corporation, Postal Finance Company, and Barclaysamericancorporation v. Federal Trade Commission
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 10, 1983No. 82-2510PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs-appellants are three companies engaged in the consumer-loan business. Although they are not insurance companies, they sell credit life insurance, as agents of such companies, in conjunction with loans they make; and they brought this suit in the federal district court in Chicago for a declaratory judgment and injunction to prevent the Federal Trade Commission from investigating their insurance activities. They say that the investigation violates section 6 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. § 46 — the very statute that confers investigatory…
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- Reisman v. CaplinSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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