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COMMONWEALTH v. MONUMENTAL PROP., INC.

459 Pa. 450 (1974)

329 A.2d 812

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, By J. Shane CREAMER, Attorney General, Appellant, v. MONUMENTAL PROPERTIES, INC., et al.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 5, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence Silver and Allen C. Warshaw, Deputy Attys. Gen., for appellant.

Lee C. Swartz, Hepford, Zimmerman & Swartz, Patricia F. Kemp, Harrisburg, Milton S. Lazaroff, Samuel Lander, Philadelphia, Joseph A. Klein, Harrisburg, Joseph A. Damico, Jr., Fronefield, duFuria & Petrikin, Media, Thomas M. Kittredge, Philadelphia, Myron B. Markel, Pittsburgh, John P. McKelligott, Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel, Sigmund H. Steinberg, Philadelphia, Patrick M. O'Donnell, Pittsburgh, Samuel P. Kamin, Pittsburgh, John Havas, Harrisburg, Leonard M. Mendelson, Hollinshead & Mendelson, Pittsburgh, for appellees.

Calvin J. Collier, Gen. Counsel, Lee H. Simowitz, Washington, D.C., for Federal Trade Commission as amicus curiae.

Before JONES, C.J., and EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERTS, Justice.

This appeal presents questions of statutory interpretation concerning the applicability of the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law, Act of December 17, 1968, P.L. 1224, §§ 1-9, 73 P.S. §§ 201-1 to 201-9 (1971).

The Commonwealth, pursuant to the Consumer Protection Law, initiated an original action in the Commonwealth Court against twenty-five landlords who use printed form...

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