United States v. Standard Education Soc.

SULLIVAN, District Judge.

The Government brings this action to recover penalties against defendants under Section 5(1) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, as amended of! March 21, 1938, by the Wheeler-Lea Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 45 (i), charging defendants with the sale or attempted sale of fifty-five encyclopedias in violation of what the Government alleges is a final modified order to cease and desist, issued on March 28, 1940, by the Federal Trade Commission, purportedly in accordance with a decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, dated May 20th, 1938.

On February 25,…