Skip to main content
DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

§ 4458

Citation
§ 4458
Parent Document
Timothy Terry and Penny Terry v. William O'Brien and Susan Cain O'Brien, 2015 VT 132 (2015)
Jurisdiction
Vermont (state)
Effective Date
2015-10-23

Other Sections in This Document (475)

Full Text

603 chars
5
           In consumer-fraud actions brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), as
opposed to state consumer-protection actions brought by private parties, the FTC need not show
knowledge in finding entities liable, but, before finding individuals liable, must show that “the
individual had or should have had knowledge or awareness of defendants’ misrepresentations.”
Fed. Trade Comm’n v. Freecom Commc’ns, Inc., 401 F.3d 1192, 1207 (10th Cir. 2005).
                                                18
1983) (affirming rejection of homebuyers’ consumer-protection-act complaint because there was