National Consumer Protection Hearings1968 - 375 pages |
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Page 90 - Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time.
Page 60 - Person" means natural persons, corporations, trusts, partnerships, incorporated or unincorporated associations, and any other legal entity. (2) 'Trade" and "commerce" mean the advertising, offering for sale, sale, or" distribution of any services and any property, tangible or intangible, real, personal or mixed, and any other article, commodity, or thing of value wherever situate, and shall include any trade or commerce directly or indirectly affecting the people of this State.
Page 120 - The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread'.
Page 62 - If any provision of this Act is declared unconstitutional, or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstances is held Invalid, the constitutionality of the remainder of the Act and the applicability thereof to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 62 - General, through such officers or attorneys as he may designate, may -file, in the district court of the United States for any judicial district in which such person resides, is found, or transacts business, and serve upon such person a petition for an order of such court for the enforcement of...
Page 62 - Whenever any petition is filed in any district court of the United States under this section, such court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine the matter so presented, and to enter such order or orders as may be required to carry into effect the provisions of this Act.
Page 86 - Association — a national educational and scientific organization with a membership of about 50,000 men and women in home economics — has consistently been guided by its purpose: To improve the quality and standards of individual and family life through education, research, cooperative programs, and education for the public.
Page 61 - ... discretion, either require or permit such person to file with it a statement in writing, under oath, or otherwise, as to all the facts and circumstances concerning the subject matter which it believes to be in the public interest to investigate, and may investigate such facts.
Page 62 - ... the district in which such person maintains his principal place of business, or in such other district in which such person transacts business as may be agreed upon by the parties to such petition.
Page 62 - Section, the (trial court of general jurisdiction of a county or judicial district) issuing an injunction shall retain jurisdiction, and the cause shall be continued, and in such cases the attorney general acting in the name of the State may petition for recovery of civil penalties.