· 3/26/1970
Bristol-Myers Company v. Federal Trade Commission
Citations
- 424 F.2d 935
- 138 U.S. App. D.C. 22
- 1970 U.S. App. LEXIS 10135
- 1970 Trade Cas. (CCH) 73,120
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that Bristol-Myers’s claim seeking to enjoin the FTC from continuing rulemaking proceedings was “not yet ripe for adjudication” because the “Commission ha[d] merely proposed a rule”
- Challenging an agency’s proposed rule was “not yet ripe for adjudication.”
- “The order’s ban on future infomercials exempts infomercials for books, newsletters, and other informational publications.”
- “[T]he claim for permanent injunctive relief is not yet ripe for adjudication. The Commission has merely proposed a rule, which may never be adopted or enforced.”
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Judges: Bazelon, Miller, MacKinnon
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