By: Derek Hawkins//June 30, 2021//
United States Supreme Court
Case Name: AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al., v. Federal Trade Commission
Case No.: 19-508
Focus: Federal Trade Commission Act – Restitution
Section 13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act authorizes the Commission to obtain, “in proper cases,” a “permanent injunction” in federal court against “any person, partnership, or corporation” that it believes “is violating, or is about to violate, any provision of law” that the Commission enforces. 87 Stat. 592, 15 U. S. C. §53(b). The question presented is whether this statutory language authorizes the Commission to seek, and a court to award, equitable monetary relief such as restitution or disgorgement. We conclude that it does not.
Reversed and remanded
Dissenting:
Concurring:
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