United States First Circuit

In the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) suit against a number of parties seeking both injunctive relief and monetary equitable relief in order to redress customers who had purchased defendants' purported panaceas off their infomercials, claiming violations of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. sections 45 and 52, summary judgment against defendants restoring millions in damages to the customers is affirmed in its entirety where: 1) the district court correctly granted summary judgment to the FTC on the issue of defendants' liability for deceptive advertising; and 2) district court correctly applied its equitable authority to fashion an appropriate remedy, ordering the defendants to cure their customers in a way that their bogus supplements could not.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/21/2010
• Published 10/21/2010

Judges

• THOMPSON

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter S. Brooks, Lawrence DeMille-Wagman