Howard Enterprises, Inc
Volume 91 · 91 F.T.C. 703
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In THE MATTER OF HOWARD ENTERPRISES, INC.
Docket 9096. Interlocutory Order, April 7, 1978 Order directing that oral argument not be set down without a further order of the Commission.
ORDER GRANTING Motion To Omit ORAL ARGUMENT On March 18, 1978, complaint counsel filed with the Secretary a motion dated March 8 to omit oral argument pursuant to Rule Section 3.52(f). The grounds urged for the motion were that the case presented essentially legal issues and that these were fully discussed in complaint counsel’s brief. Counsel for the respondents, contacted telephonically by the Secretary, declined to oppose the motion. That the issues presented by a case are legal rather than factual bears no necessary relationship to the value of oral argument, which serves as an opportunity to sharpen and define the opposing positions of the parties, and to probe the implications of their arguments, whatever the nature of the issues. However, we will defer provisionally to the evident judgment of both counsel that the issues here will be fully elaborated in the briefs. If the Commission should determine, once all the briefs are available, that oral argument would nonetheless be useful, it can so order at that time.
Accordingly, it is ordered, That no date for oral argument in this matter shall be set down without a further order of the Commission. Interlocutory Order 91 F.T.C.