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Volume 83 · 83 F.T.C. 1354

Citation
83 F.T.C. 1354
Docket
C-2059
Complaint
1971-10-08
Decision
1974-02-26
Document type
modifying order
Case type
consumer protection
Statutes
FTC Act (section 5)
Industry
consumer products
Outcome
modified
Relief
other
Respondent counsel
Dinsmore, Shohl, Coates & Deupree, Cincinnati, Ohio. REUBEN H. DONNELLEY CORP. 1599 1355 Order
Source
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Procter & Gamble Company, 83 F.T.C. 1354 (1974). Consumer Law Library, https://consumerlawlibrary.org/decisions/v083-0125

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Order status: unknown. Sunset may be extended by the latest qualifying federal-court complaint alleging an order violation; complaints, dismissal/appeal outcomes, and respondent-specific extensions are not fully tracked.

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IN THE MATTER OF THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY MODIFYING ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT Docket C-2059. Complaint, Oct. 8, 1971—Modifying Order, Feb. 26,. 1974 Order reopening proceeding and modifying cease and desist order, 79 F.T.C. 589, by deleting two (2) sections of the order which require respondent to disclose the approximate numerical odds of winning each prize awarded in its promotional “sweepstakes” contests or the approximate number of recipients to whom the offer is directed where odds are not reasonably capable of calculation. Appearances For the respondent: Dinsmore, Shohl, Coates & Deupree, Cincinnati, Ohio.

REUBEN H. DONNELLEY CORP. 1599 1355 Order ORDER REOPENING PROCEEDING AND MODIFYING CEASE AND DESIST ORDER The Commission, on January 22, 1974, having issued an order against respondent to show cause why the proceedings herein should not be reopened for the purpose of modifying the consent order to cease and desist entered on October 8, 1971; and Respondent having answered that it has no objection to the reopening of the proceedings and the modification of the consent order, as set forth in the order to show cause.

Accordingly, It is ordered, That the matter be reopened, and that the order herein be modified in the following manner: strike section A(2); renumber sections A(3), A(4), A(5), and A(6) as, respectively, A(2), A(8), A(4), and A(5); strike section B(8); renumber sections B(4) and B(5) as, respectively, B(3) and B(4).

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