Deception, FTC Oversight: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, March 26, 1984U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 - 490 halaman |
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Halaman 15 - The fact that a false statement may be obviously false to those who are trained and experienced does not change its character, nor take away its power to deceive others less experienced. There is no duty resting upon a citizen to suspect the honesty of those with whom he transacts business. Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.
Halaman 28 - Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc . , 425 US 748 (1976); Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation v.
Halaman 467 - ... fails to reveal facts material in the light of such representations or material with respect to consequences which may result from the use of the article to which the labeling relates...
Halaman 467 - ... representations made or suggested by statement, word, design, device, sound, or any combination thereof, but also the extent to which the advertisement fails to reveal facts material in the light of such representations or material with respect to consequences which may result from the use of the commodity to which the advertisement relates under the conditions prescribed in said advertisement, or under such conditions as are customary or usual.
Halaman 313 - States, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendments are as follows : Page 2.
Halaman 182 - Commission will find deception if there is a representation, omission or practice that is likely to mislead the consumer acting reasonably in the circumstances, to the consumer's detriment.
Halaman 339 - In carrying out this function the Commission is not limited to prohibiting the illegal practice in the precise form in which it is found to have existed in the past.
Halaman 454 - The law is not made for the protection of experts, but for the public — that vast multitude which includes the ignorant, the unthinking and the credulous, who, in making purchases, do not stop to analyze, but are governed by appearances and general impressions.
Halaman 384 - Whenever the Commission has reason to believe — (1) that any person, partnership, or corporation is engaged in, or is about to engage in, the dissemination or the causing of the dissemination of any advertisement...
Halaman 388 - Advertisements as a whole may be completely misleading although every sentence separately considered is literally true. This may be because things are omitted that should be said, or because advertisements are composed or purposely printed in such a way as to mislead.