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387 US 158 Toilet Goods Association v. Wga Rdner 387 U.S. 158
87 S.Ct. 1520
18 L.Ed.2d 697
The TOILET GOODS ASSOCIATION, Inc., et al., Petitioners,v.John W.GA RDNER, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare et al.
Argued Jan. 16, 1967.
Edward J. Ross, New York City, for petitioners.
Nathan Lewin, Washington, D.C., for respondents.
Petitioners in this case are the Toilet Goods Association, an organization of cosmetics manufacturers accounting for some 90% of annual American sales in this field, and 39 individual cosmetics manufacturers and distributors. They brought this action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, on the ground that certain regulations promulgated by the Commissioner exceeded his statutory authority under the Color Additive Amendments to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, 74 Stat. 397, 21 U.S.C. §§ 321—376. The District Court held that the Act did not prohibit this type of preenforcement suit, that a case and controversy existed, that the issues presented were justiciable, and that no reasons had been presented by the Government to warrant declining jurisdiction on discretionary grounds. 235 F.Supp. 648. Recognizing that the subsequent decision of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Abbott Laboratories v. Celebrezze, 352 F.2d 286, appeared to conflict with its holding, the District Court reaffirmed its earlier rulings but certified the question of jurisdiction to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b). The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the District Court that jurisdiction to hear the suit existed as to three of the challenged regulations, but sustained the Government's contention that judicial review was improper as to a fourth. 360 F.2d 677.
Each side below sought review here from the portions of the Court of Appeals' decision adverse to it, the Government as petitioner in Gardner v. Toilet Goods Assn., No. 438, 387 U.S. 167, 87 S.Ct. 1526, 18 L.Ed.2d 704, and the Toilet Goods Association and other plaintiffs in the present case. We granted certiorari in both instances, 385 U.S. 813, 87 S.Ct. 96, 17 L.Ed.2d 53, as we did in Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner, No. 39, 383 U.S. 924, 86 S.Ct. 928, 15 L.Ed.2d 844, because of the apparent conflict between the Second and Third Circuits. The two Toilet Goods cases were set and argued together with Abbott Laboratories.
In our decisions reversing the judgment in Abbott Laboratories, 387 U.S. 136, 87 S.Ct. 1507, 18 L.Ed.2d 681, and affirming the judgment in Gardner v. Toilet Goods Assn., 387 U.S. 167, 87 S.Ct. 1526, 18 L.Ed.2d 704, both decided today, we hold that nothing in the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 52 Stat. 1040, as amended, bars a pre-enforcement suit under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. §§ 701—704 (1964 ed., Supp. II), and the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201. We nevertheless agree with the Court of Appeals that judicial review of this particular regulation in this particular context is inappropriate at this stage because, applying the standards set forth in Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner, the controversy is not presently ripe for adjudication.
The regulation in issue here was promulgated under the Color Additive Amendments of 1960, 74 Stat. 397, 21 U.S.C. §§ 321—376, a statute that revised and somewhat broadened the authority of the Commissioner to control the ingredients added to foods, drugs, and cosmetics that impart color to them. The Commissioner of Food and Drugs, exercising power delegated by the Secretary, 22 Fed.Reg. 1051, 25 Fed.Reg. 8625, under statutory authority 'to promulgate regulations for the efficient enforcement' of the Act, § 701(a), 21 U.S.C. § 37