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LEVER BROTHERS COMPANY v. F.T.C.

Civ. No. 12-82.

325 F.Supp. 371 (1971)

LEVER BROTHERS COMPANY et al., Plaintiffs, v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Miles W. Kirkpatrick, Paul Rand Dixon, David S. Dennison, Jr., A. Everette MacIntyre, Mary Gardiner Jones, Individually and in their capacity as members of the Federal Trade Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Maine, S. D.

April 19, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred C. Scribner, Jr., Ralph I. Lancaster, Jr., Peter S. Plumb, Portland, Me., William Rogers, Stuart J. Friedman, Washington, D. C., Donald J. Lunghino, New York City, for Lever Brothers Co.

Herbert H. Sawyer, Sumner Bernstein, Portland, Me., Raymond L. Falls, Jr., Cahill, Gordon, Sonnett, Reindel & Ohl, LeRoy H. Hurlbert, New York City, for Colgate-Palmolive Co. (intervenor).

Roger A. Putnam, Portland, Me., Daniel M. Gribbon, Charles Lister, John S. Koch, Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., Richard W. Barrett, Proctor & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, for Proctor & Gamble Co. (intervenor).

John G. Marshall, John B. Beliveau, Lewiston, Me., David Machanic, Washington, D. C., for Soap and Detergent Assn. (intervenor).

Peter Mills, U. S. Atty., John B. Wlodkowski, Asst. U. S. Atty., Portland, Me., Joseph Martin, Jr., Gen. Counsel, Harold D. Rhynedance, Jr., Asst. Gen. Counsel, Gerald Harwood, Atty., F. T. C., Washington, D. C., for the F. T. C. and others.

MEMORANDUM OF OPINION AND ORDER OF THE COURT

GIGNOUX, District Judge.

On January 25, 1971, the Federal Trade Commission issued a "Notice of Public Hearing and Opportunity to Submit Data, Views or Arguments Regarding a Proposed Trade Regulation Rule" (36 Fed.Reg. 1012 (1971)). The Notice states that the Commission has undertaken a trade regulation rule proceeding to consider whether it should promulgate a rule by the terms of which it would become an unfair...

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