Legal Opinion
Vidal Sassoon, Inc. v. Bristol-Myers Company
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 7, 1981No. 226, Docket 81-7483PublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:
One of the most delicate tasks a court faces is the application of the legislative mandate of a prior generation to novel circumstances created by a culture grown more complex. In the instant case, we must determine whether statutory language derived from a 1920 prohibition against false advertising embraces misrepresentations regarding the results and methods of tests purporting to reflect consumer preferences for one named brand over another, a relatively new development in the burgeoning advertising and marketing fields. The district court preliminarily…
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