Federal Trade Commission v. Five-Star Auto Club, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendants were liable for misrepresentations made by marketing directors even if these individuals would be considered independent contractors by law
• concluding that the defendant provided the public with the means and instrumentalities to deceive others by distributing deceptive marketing materials
• noting that it would be “inappropriate” for a defendant to hold out salespeople as its representatives and to “ ‘reap the fruits from their acts and doings without incurring such liabilities as attach thereto.’ ”
• setting out the standard for individual liability before addressing the issue of Mrs. Sullivan's liability
• “This grant of permanent injunctive power gives the court broad equitable authority to ‘grant any ancillary relief necessary to accomplish complete justice,’ ”
• “The case law is clear that representations regarding the profit potential of a business opportunity are important to consumers, and therefore such are material misrepresentations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).