Legal Opinion
Federal Trade Commission v. Trudeau
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 27, 2009No. 08-4249PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
If you have a problem, chances are Kevin Trudeau has an answer. For over a decade, Trudeau has promoted countless “cures” for a host of human woes that he claims the government and corporations have kept hidden from the American public. Cancer, AIDS, severe pain, hair loss, slow reading, poor memory, debt, obesity — you name it, Trudeau has a “cure” for it. To get his messages out, Trudeau has become a marketing machine. And the infomercial is his medium of choice. He has appeared in dozens of them, usually in the form of a staged, scripted interview where Trudeau raves…
2Cases cited54 opinions
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3Cited by61 opinions
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- Lightspeed Media Corp. v. SmithCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2014
- United States v. David SklenaCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2012
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