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Court Case Against Mytinger And Casselberry

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COURT CASE AGAINST Mytinger & Casselberry, Inc. Mytinger & Casselberry had violated two acts, section 3 of the Clayton Act and Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, according to www.investopedia.com the Clayton act in short, “tries to prohibit acts that lead to anti-competitiveness”, and the Federal Trade Commission Act according to www.wikipedia.org grants “power to investigate and prevent deceptive trade practices”. In the first of two court cases between 1950 and 1962, the courts ordered Mytinger & Casselberry, Inc. to change their claims of Nutrilite vitamins positively aeffecting diseases like cancer, arthritis, asthma, heart trouble and tuberculosis. They changed their sales booklet, but most of the claims in the booklet was were still very misleading. After the FDA went on a rampage to seize as many of Nutrilite’s products as possible to force them to correct their misleading info or face going to court, Mytinger & Casselberry filed suit against the FDA, stating through the seizures they are trying to run them out of business, before they could make the necessary corrections, i. In a fairly lucky twist theirir the Judge in their case Judge Goldsborough, who was very much against the FDA, found in favor of Mytinger & Casselberry and issued a restraining order against the FDA, they went to trial and on …show more content…

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