F.T.C. v. NATIONAL UROLOGICAL GROUP, INC.

No. 14-13131.

785 F.3d 477 (2015)

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, Certusbank, N.A., Plaintiff, v. NATIONAL UROLOGICAL GROUP, INC., et al., d.b.a. Warner Laboratories, Defendants, Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Corporation, Jared Wheat, individually and as officer of the corporation, Stephen Smith, individually and as officer of National Urological Group, Inc. and National Institute for Clinical Weight Loss, Inc., M.D. Terrill Mark Wright, Individually, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

May 5, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie Rice Melman , Amanda C. Basta , Mary Lucile Johnson , William E. Kovacic , Edwin Rodriguez , Federal Trade Commission Office of General Counsel, Stephen Christopher Dowdell , U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Cindy A. Liebes , Federal Trade Commission, Lawrence R. Sommerfeld , Sally Yates , U.S. Attorney's Office, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Merritt Ellen Mcalister , David M. Barnes , King & Spalding, LLP, Charles Ronald Bridgers , Edmund J. Novotny, Jr. , Delong Caldwell Bridgers & Fitzpatrick, LLC, Lamar Clint Crosby , Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, Kimberly Alice Dymecki , Law Office of Kimberly Alice Dymecki, Bruce Steven Harvey , Law Office Of Bruce Harvey, E. Vaughn Dunnigan , E. Vaughn Dunnigan, PC, Atlanta, GA, Timothy M. Fulmer , Natter & Fulmer, PC, J. Stephen Salter , Attorney at Law, Birmingham, AL, Arthur W. Leach , Attorney at Law, Alpharetta, GA, Jack Wenik , Sills Cummis Zuckerman Radin , Newark, NJ, Steve Murrin , Murrin, Wallace & Associates, Rosewell, GA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before TJOFLAT, WILLIAM PRYOR, and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.


In this appeal, we must decide whether the district court abused its discretion when it held Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Jared Wheat, Stephen Smith, and Dr. Terrill Mark Wright in contempt for violating injunctions that prohibit them from making any representation about weight-loss products unless they "possess[...

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