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FEDERAL TRADE COMM'N v. NATIONAL UROLOGICAL GROUP

No. 21-14161.

80 F.4th 1236 (2023)

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Counter Defendant-Appellee, Certus Bank, N.A., Plaintiff, v. NATIONAL UROLOGICAL GROUP, INC. dba Warner Laboratories, et al., Defendants-Counter Claimant, Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., corporations, Jared Wheat, individually and as officers of the corporations, Stephen Smith, individually and as officers of National Urological Group, Inc. and National Institute for Clinical Weight Loss, Inc. Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Filed: August 29, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mariel Goetz , Amanda C. Basta , Cheryl Kawezya Burris , Tawana E. Davis , Stephen C. Dowdell , Edward B. Glennon , Theodore H. Hoppock , Mary Lucile Johnson , Sydney Knight , Amanda B. Kostner , William E. Kovacic , Evan M. Mendelson , Crystal D. Ostrum , Edwin Rodriguez , Alejandro G. Rosenberg , Federal Trade Commission, Office of the General Counsel, Washington, DC, Cindy A. Liebes , Valerie M. Verduce , Federal Trade Commission, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Counter Defendant-Appellee.

Robert F. Parsley , David M. Barnes , Meredith Lee , Miller & Martin, PLLC, Chattanooga, TN, Russell Edward Blythe , King & Spalding, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Charles Ronald Bridgers , Edmund J. Novotny, Jr. , DeLong Caldwell Bridgers Fitzpatrick & Benjamin, LLC, Atlanta, GA, Timothy M. Fulmer , Natter & Fulmer, PC, Birmingham, AL, Melissa Lyn Jampol , Epstein Becker & Green, PC, New York, NY, Jack Wenik , Epstein Becker & Green, PC, Newark, NJ, Arthur W. Leach , Attorney at Law, Alpharetta, GA, for Defendant-Appellant Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Robert F. Parsley , Meredith Lee , Miller & Martin, PLLC, Chattanooga, TN, Kimberly Alice Dymecki , Law Office of Kimberly Alice Dymecki, Atlanta, GA, Melissa Lyn Jampol , Epstein Becker & Green, PC, New York, NY, Theodore Titus McCormick , Epstein Becker & Green, Princeton, NJ, Jack Wenik , Epstein Becker & Green, PC, Newark, NJ, Victor Kelley , Law Office of Victor Kelley, Birmingham, AL, Arthur W. Leach , Attorney at Law, Alpharetta, GA, Edmund J. Novotny, Jr. , DeLong Caldwell Bridgers Fitzpatrick & Benjamin, LLC, Atlanta, GA, John Stephen Salter , Attorney at Law, Birmingham, AL, for Defendant-Appellant Jared Wheat.

E. Vaughn Dunnigan , E. Vaughn Dunnigan, PC, Atlanta, GA, Brett M. Bloomston , The Bloomston Firm, Birmingham, AL, Bruce Steven Harvey , Law Office of Bruce Harvey, Atlanta, GA, Arthur W. Leach , Attorney at Law, Alpharetta, GA, Edmund J. Novotny, Jr. , DeLong Caldwell Bridgers Fitzpatrick & Benjamin, LLC, Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Appellant Stephen Smith.

Before William Pryor, Chief Judge, Jill Pryor, Circuit Judge, and Coogler, Chief District Judge.

Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Jared Wheat, and Stephen Smith appeal the district court's denial of their request for relief from contempt sanctions. Nearly twenty years ago, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued them for violations of the Federal Trade Commission Act, alleging they had misrepresented their weight-loss...

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