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AUDOBON LIFE INS. CO. v. F. T. C.

Civ. A. No. 81-952-B.

543 F.Supp. 1362 (1982)

AUDUBON LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Commercial Securities Company, Inc. v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, James C. Miller, III, Chairman, Michael Pertschuk, Commissioner, David A. Clanton, Commissioner, Patricia P. Bailey, Commissioner.

United States District Court, M. D. Louisiana.

July 30, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Hawthorne, Jr., Sanders, Downing, Kean & Cazedessus, Baton Rouge, La., Christopher Smith, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

J. Paul McGrath, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Stanford O. Bardwell, Jr., U. S. Atty., M. D. La., Baton Rouge, La., Sandra M. Schraibman and Surell Brady, Attorneys, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants; John H. Carley, Gen. Counsel, Howard E. Shapiro, Deputy Gen. Counsel, Ernest J. Isenstadt, Acting Asst. Gen. Counsel, Leslie Rice Melman, Attorney, F. T. C., Washington, D. C., of counsel.

POLOZOLA, District Judge:

The circumstances giving rise to this action began in September, 1980, when the Federal Trade Commission (F.T.C.) adopted a resolution authorizing the use of compulsory process in a nonpublic investigation of the practices of certain finance companies and automobile dealerships. The resolution provided that the F. T. C. was to conduct an investigation to determine whether certain unnamed companies and dealerships were acting in violation...

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