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Federal Trade Commission-Recent Trends In Interpretation Of The Federal Trade Commission Act
Federal Trade Commission-Recent Trends In Interpretation Of The Federal Trade Commission Act
Michigan Law Review
The Federal Trade Commission has never been a favored child of the courts. Beginning with the first case to which the Commission was a party, the attitude of the judiciary has clearly been unfriendly. The Commission gets its powers from the Clayton Act and from the Federal Trade Commission Act. The courts have interpreted the Clayton Act strictly, and there is no sign of a change of heart by the majority of the Supreme Court in that respect; it is believed, however, that a few of the recent cases under the Federal Trade Commission Act, both in the Supreme Court …