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UNION CIRCULATION COMPANY v. FEDERAL TRADE COM'N

No. 16, Docket 23588.

241 F.2d 652 (1957)

UNION CIRCULATION COMPANY, Inc., National Circulating Company, Inc., Publishers Continental Sales Corporation, Corporations, and Leo E. Light and Roy C. Hodge, Co-Partners, doing business as National Literary Association, Petitioners, v. The FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided February 18, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gilbert H. Weil, New York City (Alfred T. Lee, New York City, on the brief; Mortimer M. Lerner, New York City, of counsel to National Circulating Co., Inc.), for petitioners.

Earl W. Kintner, Gen. Counsel, Robert B. Dawkins, Asst. Gen. Counsel, John Carter, Jr., Washington, D. C., Atty., Federal Trade Commission, for respondent.

Before MEDINA, LUMBARD and WATERMAN, Circuit Judges.

WATERMAN, Circuit Judge.

Petitioners are agencies engaged in the business of selling subscriptions for magazines and periodicals by door-to-door solicitation. They were charged with engaging in unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 45(a). At the conclusion of the administrative proceedings before the Federal Trade Commission that Commission issued a cease and desist...

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