Cinderella Career and Finishing Schools, Inc., Stephen Corporation, Vincent Melzac v. Federal Trade Commission

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• holding that the standard for evaluating the existence of improper prejudgment in an adjudicative context is whether “a disinterested observer may conclude that (the agency
• disapproving of circumstances “which give the appearance that [a decisionmaker] has already prejudged the case and that the ultimate determination of the merits will move in predestined grooves”
• disapproving of circumstances “which give the appearance that [a decisionmaker] has already prejudged the case and that the ultimate determination of the merits will move in predestined grooves”
• vacating agency decision because biased chairman took part in the fact-finding and deliberations
• public statements of commission chairman indicating some measure of prejudgment, combined with other errors, required vacation of order
• due process required disqualification of Federal Trade Commission chairman, who, while considering a misrepresentation case, made a speech mixing facts of the case with examples of obvious fraud

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).