Mutual Distributors, Inc.
Volume 59 · 59 F.T.C. 302
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Mutual Distributors, Inc., 59 F.T.C. 302 (1961). Consumer Law Library, https://consumerlawlibrary.org/decisions/v059-0058
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In THE MatTrer oF MUTUAL DISTRIBUTORS, INC., ET AL.
ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT Docket 7803. Complaint, Mar. 2, 1960—Decision, Aug. 23, 1961 Order—following enactment of specific statutes which afford adequate protection to the public against the challenged practices—dismissing complaint charging distributors of phonograph records with giving illegal “payola”’ to radio and television disc jockeys.
Complaint Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act, and by virtue of the authority vested in it by said Act, the Federal Trade Commission, having reason to believe that Mutual Distributors, Inc., a corporation, and George D. Hartstone, Leon C. Hartstone, and Robert S. Hartstone, individually and as officers of said corporation, hereinafter referred to as respondents, have violated the provisions of said Act, and it appearing to the Commission that a proceeding by it in respect thereof would be in the public interest, hereby issues its complaint, stating its charges in that respect as follows:
Paracrapy 1. Mutual Distributors, Inc., is a corporation organized, existing and doing business under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Massachusetts, with its principal office and place of business located at 1241 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Respondents George D. Hartstone, Leon C. Hartstone and Robert S. Hartstone are, respectively, president, treasurer and clerk of the corporate respondent. Said individual respondents formulate, direct and control the acts and practices of said corporate respondent, including the acts and practices herein set out. The address of the individual respondents is the same as that of said corporate respondent.
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August 1961, become the decision of the Commission; and, accordingly:
It is ordered, That respondents herein shall, within sixty (60) days after service upon them of this order, file with the Commision a report in writing setting forth in detail the manner and form in which they have complied with the order to cease and desist.