Jewel Case, Inc

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In Tur Marrer or JEWEL CASE, INC., ET AL.

CONSENT ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO: THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION AND THE FLAMMABLE FABRICS ACTS Docket C--1883. Complaint, Mar. 18, 1971—Decision, Mar. 18, 1971 Consent order requiring New York City importers and distributors of women’s and misses’ wearing apparel, including ladies’ scarves, to cease violating the Flammable Fabrics Act by distributing any fabric which fails to conform to the standards of said Act.

Complaint Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Flammable Fabrics Act, as amended, and by virtue of the authority vested in it by said Acts, the Federal Trade Commission, having reason to believe that Jewel Case, Inc., a corporation, and Christian Bounaix, individually and as an officer of said corporation, hereinafter referred to as respondents, have violated the provisions of said Acts and the Rules and Regulations promulgated under the Flammable Fabrics Act, as amended, 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:

Paracrapn 1. Respondent Jewel Case, Inc., is a - corporation organized, existing and doing business under and by virtue of the laws of the State of New York. Its address is 385 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York.

Respondent Christian Bounaix. is an officer of the corporate respondent. IIe formulates, directs and controls the acts, practices and Decision and Order 78 F.T.C.

policies of the said corporate respondent including those hereinafter set forth. His address is the same as that of the corporate respondent. Respondents are engaged in the importation and sale of women’s and misses’ wearing apparel, including, but not limited to, ladies’ scarves.

Par. 2. Respondents are now and for some time last past have been engaged in the sale and offering for sale, in commerce, and the importation into the United States, and have introduced, de-. livered for introduction, transported and caused to be transported in commerce, and have sold or delivered after sale or shipment in commerce, products, as the terms “commerce” and “product” are defined in the Flammable Fabrics Act, as amended, which products failed to conform to an applicable standard or regulation continued in effect, issued or amended under the provisions of the Flammable Fabrics Act, as amended.

Among such products mentioned hereinabove were women’s and misses’ wearing apparel, including, but not limited thereto, ladies’ scarves.

Par. 3. The aforesaid acts and practices of respondents were and are in violation of the Flammable Fabrics Act, as amended, and the Rules and Regulations promulgated thereunder, and constituted, and now constitute, unfair and deceptive acts and practices in commerce, within the intent and meaning of the Federal Trade Commission Act.

Decision AND ORDER The Federal Trade Commission having initiated an investigation of certain acts and practices of the respondents named in the caption hereof, and the respondents having been furnished thereafter with a copy of a draft of complaint which the Bureau of Consumer Protection proposed to present to the Commission for its consideration and which, if issued by the Commission, would charge respondents with violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Flammable Fabrics Act, as amended; and ; The respondents and counsel for the Commission having thereafter executed an agreement containing a consent order, an admission by the respondents of all the jurisdictional facts set forth in the aforesaid draft of complaint, a statement that the signing of said agreement is for settlement purposes only and does not constitute an admission by respondents that the law has been violated as alleged in such complaint, and waivers and other provisions as required by the Commission’s Rules; and with: ihe rocedure: prescri pe mission hereby issues its complaint, makes tl - tional findings, and enters the following order: 1. Respondent J ewel. Case, Inc., is a ‘corporation organized ing and doing. business under and by virtue of the laws of the State of New York. Its address is 385 Fifth Avenue, New. York, ‘New ¥ Respondent ‘hristian Bounaix is an officer of the corpora ee spondent. He formulates, directs and controls ‘the acts, practices | and ~~ policies of the said corporate respondent, ‘including those het : set. forth. His address is the same as that of the. corporate respondet _ Respondents are engaged in the importation and sale of womer! : and. misses’ wearing: ‘apparel, including, but. not. limited to, ladi S scarves.

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