Abel Allan Goodman, an Individual Trading as Weavers Guild v. Federal Trade Commission

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• finding that, under the circumstances, seller’s representations about the “ease” of learning how to weave from seller’s products were decep- tive
• “[C]apacity to deceive and not actual deception is the 28 criterion by which practices are tested under the Federal Trade Commission Act.”
• \One of the objects of the Federal Trade Commission Act is to eradicate business methods having a capacity to deceive.\
• “The misrepresentations [the agents] made were at least within the apparent scope of their authority and part of the inducement by which were made sales that inured to the benefit of the corporate petitioner.” (internal quotation and citation omitted)
• § 5 of FTC Act
• § 5 of FTC Act

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