Legal Opinion
Sydney N. Floersheim, an Individual Trading and Doing Business as Floersheim Sales Company and National Research Company v. Federal Trade Commission
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 26, 1969No. 22733_1PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOLOMON, District Judge:
Sydney N. Floersheim 1 seeks review of a cease and desist order of the Federal Trade Commission. Floersheim sells forms designed to help creditors collect debts. The Commission found the forms deceptive and misleading because they appeared to come from an official source, or from a third party other than the creditor.
Floersheim sells “Payment Demand" and “skip-tracer” forms. Most of the forms are printed on IBM cards. Some of the cards are punched with holes. Many forms are green or beige, others are white. Floersheim lives in and sells his forms from Los Angeles. When…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Wickard v. FilburnSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Federal Trade Commission v. Colgate-Palmolive Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Federal Trade Commission v. National Lead Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Exposition Press, Inc. And Edward Uhlan v. Federal Trade CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1961
- The Elmo Division of Drive-X Company, Inc. v. Paul Rand Dixon, the Federal Trade CommissionCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1965
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3Cited by36 opinions
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