Agency grouped all related industry cases into pooled multi-defendant trials

Evidence

The Federal Trade Commission attempted to stop the loaning of pumps by issuing complaints against every company, large or small, who engaged in the practice. It tried the cases in three groups because it believed that the testimomy of all witnesses would be relevant to the practices of all companies who did business in a given area, also because it wished to save the expense of separate trials. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 426

Categorization

• XREF: The FTC’s area-wide grouped proceedings parallel the proactive block-enforcement strategy from earlier housing chapters — enforcement scaled to a whole market/geography rather than individual complaints. — connects to: Respondents themselves requested broadening evidence across grouped cases — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 437