Hugo Black

Name: Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education Soc — Opinion of the Court
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Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education Soc…

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“Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education Soc — Opinion of the Court”, is a work by Hugo Black. It explores elements such as respondents, encyclopedia and Commission.

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Hugo Black, Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education Soc…

“ It was clearly the practice of respondents through their agents, in accordance with a well matured plan, to mislead customers into the belief that they were given an encyclopedia, and that they paid only for the loose leaf supplement. That representations were made justifying this belief; that the plan was outlined in letters going directly from the companies; that men and women were deceived by them-there can be little doubt. Certainly the Commission was justified from the evidence in finding that customers were misled. ”

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Hugo Black, Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education Soc…

“ The practice of promising free books where no free books were intended to be given, and the practice of deceiving unwary purchasers into the false belief that loose leaf supplements alone sell for $69.50, when in reality both books and supplement regularly sell for $69.50, are practices contrary to decent business standards. To fail to prohibit such evil practices would be to elevate deception in business and to give to it the standing and dignity of truth. ”

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Hugo Black, Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education Soc…

“ In reaching the conclusion that respondents should be left free to engage in that part of the sales scheme prohibited by clauses 1 and 3 of the Commission's order, the court below (86 F. (2d) 692, 695) reasoned as follows: 'We cannot take too seriously the suggestion that a man who is buying a set of books and a ten years' 'extension service' will be fatuous enough to be misled by the mere statement that the first are given away, and that he is paying only for the second. ”

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Hugo Black, Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education Soc…

“ Testimony in the record from citizens of ten states-teachers, doctors, college professors, club women, business men-proves beyond doubt that the practice was not only the commonly accepted sales method for respondents' encyclopedias, but that it successfully deceived and deluded its victims.
The courts do not have a right to ignore the plain mandate of the statute which makes the findings of the Commission conclusive as to the facts if supported by testimony. [1] The courts cannot pick and choose bits of evidence to make findings of fact contrary to the findings of the Commission. ”

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Hugo Black, Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education Soc…

“ 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. ”

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Hugo Black, Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education Soc…

“ Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious. The best element of business has long since decided that honesty should govern competitive enterprises, and that the rule of caveat emptor should not be relied upon to reward fraud and deception. ”

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Hugo Black, Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education Soc…

“ We are convinced that the Commission's findings of fact justified this clause of the order and that the testimony supports these findings. [2]
The Court of Appeals entirely excluded respondent Greener from the operation of the Commission's order, and partially excluded respondents Stanford and Ward. ”

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Hugo Black, Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education Soc…

“ If no part of his contribution to Aiton's encyclopedia has been brought forward, he is not a contributor and should not be represented as such. This clause as originally declared by the Commission would, under this interpretation, properly forbid respondents from falsely representing as contributors or editors those who had actually neither contributed to, nor edited, the publications. The decree of the court below modifying this clause is not in accordance with our conclusion, and clause 7 of the Commission's order should be enforced. ”

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Hugo Black, Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Education Soc…

“ The Commission, after service of a complaint, and extensive hearings, made a finding of facts from the testimony and ordered two corporation respondents and three individuals controlling these corporations, to desist from certain practices used by respondents in furthering the sale of encyclopedias and other books in interstate commerce. ”

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