Legal Opinion
Independent Directory Corp. v. Federal Trade Commission
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 16, 1951No. 158, Docket 21769PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHASE, Circuit Judge.
The petitioners, who are two corporations which publish directories and two individuals who are officers in such corporations, are seeking to have set aside a cease and desist order of the Federal Trade Commission.
The order required the petitioners to stop a practice they had been using in soliciting advertising by mail. This practice was to send to a prospective customer one of the petitioners’ order blanks to which was pasted one of the prospect’s advertisements clipped from some directory or other publication with which the petitioners had no connection. The printed…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Hale v. HenkelSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
- Federal Trade Commission v. American Tobacco Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1924
- Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education SocietySupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Federal Trade Commission v. Winsted Hosiery Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1922
- Charles of the Ritz Distributors Corp. v. Federal Trade CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1944
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- Consumer Sales Corp. v. Federal Trade CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1952
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