BANKERS SECURITIES CORPORATION v. F. T. C.

No. 13538.

297 F.2d 403 (1961)

BANKERS SECURITIES CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided December 18, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis J. Goffman, Philadelphia, Pa., (Burton Caine, Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for petitioner.

Thomas F. Howder, Washington, D. C., (James McI. Henderson, Gen. Counsel, Alan B. Hobbes, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for the Federal Trade Commission.

Before GOODRICH, McLAUGHLIN and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.


HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

This petition for review of a cease and desist order of the Federal Trade Commission asks that we overturn the Commission's finding that certain department store advertising was false and deceptive or, at least, that we modify the broad language of the order.

The charge in this case dealt with certain advertising of carpeting by Snellenburgs, a large department store with retail outlets in the city and suburbs of Philadelphia. The order...

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