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E. I. DuPONT de NEMOURS & CO. v. F. T. C.

Civ. A. No. 79-471.

488 F.Supp. 747 (1980)

E. I. DuPONT de NEMOURS AND COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, and its Commissioners, Michael Pertschuk, Paul Rand Dixon, David A. Clanton and Robert Pitofsky, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

April 9, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawton A. Burrows of E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Co., Wilmington, Del., for plaintiff; Daniel M. Gribbon and Terry Coleman of Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., and Gerald E. Kandler and William E. Macintyre, of E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Co., Wilmington, Del., of counsel.

James W. Garvin, Jr., U. S. Atty., John X. Denney, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Wilmington, Del., Alice Daniel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civ. Div., and R. John Seibert and Nancy M. Floreen, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants; Michael N. Sohn, Gen. Counsel, Howard E. Shapiro, Deputy Gen. Counsel, W. Dennis Cross, Asst. Gen. Counsel, and Edward F. Glynn, Jr., Atty., F. T. C., Washington, D. C., of counsel.

OPINION

LATCHUM, Chief Judge.

E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company ("DuPont") filed this action against the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") and its individual Commissioners, on October 1, 1979, in an effort to obtain a declaratory judgment that a pending FTC administrative complaint does not allege a violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act1 ("Act"); and that the FTC violated DuPont's First Amendment right of free speech...

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