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Congress intended to give FTC power to obtain consumer restitution, commission tells justices

( April 28, 2020, 16:59 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Congress intended for the US Federal Trade Commission to have multiple enforcement tools when it approved Section 13(b) of the FTC Act, the enforcer told the US Supreme Court in a filing. The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit failed to realize that in ruling in 2019 that the FTC's application of  "a permanent injunction" doesn't related to obtaining financial restitution for consumers when laws are broken, and as a result the Supreme Court should review that decision, the FTC said. "The court of appeals’ decision upsets Congress’s design by treating those tools as if they must be identical, dismissing them as redundant if they overlap, and ignoring Congress’s express direction to the contrary,” the FTC told the high court in replying to a brief filed by Credit Bureau Center....

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