No Restitution for the Weary: Seventh Circuit Limits FTC’s Ability to Seek Restitution

The Seventh Circuit issued a decision this week that guts a key part of the FTC’s enforcement arsenal – the ability to obtain equitable monetary relief from defendants when the FTC challenges conduct in federal court under Section 13(b) of the FTC Act. We’ve written previously—here, here, here, and here—regarding the limits courts have placed on the FTC’s ability to invoke Section 13(b) and this case brings those issues to a head.

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