Bear Sales Company, a Corporation and E. Robert Baer, Individually and as as an Officer of Said Corporation v. Federal Trade Commission

This matter is before the Court upon the petition of Bear Sales Company, a corporation, and E. Robert Baer, individually, to review an order issued by the Federal Trade Commission. The order requires the petitioners to cease and desist from selling or disposing of merchandise by means of a game of chance, gift enterprise, lottery scheme, chance, or gaming device, and from supplying to others devices designed to be so used.

The record establishes that petitioners are engaged in a typical “push card” merchandising operation such as that recently considered by this Court in Dandy Products, Inc.…