L. B. Silver Co. v. Federal Trade Commission of America

While I concur generally in the opinion of Judge DONAHUE as far as it goes, I see both the need and the occasion for a study of thé scope and extent of the Commission’s power along the line here involved, under section 5 of the act .(Comp. St. § 8836e).

In this matter, as in many others currently familiar, the Commission has adopted the theory that the “unfair methods of competition” denounced by section 5 include all false, not to say unethical, advertising and promotion of a particular article by which that fraction of the public desiring to purchase an article of that class may be, in a…