Court Opinion

ID: 9462415
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:40:38.519899+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:34.937615
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ROSENN, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
In enacting section 13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. § 53(b), Congress empowered the Trade Commission to seek a preliminary injunction pending the outcome of administrative cease and desist proceedings “whenever the Commission has reason to believe” that a law enforced by the Commission is about to be violated or is being violated, and upon a showing that injunctive relief is in the public interest. Unfortunately, the district court’s findings do not satisfy Rule 52(a), Fed.R. Civ.P., and do not establish that Aireo has committed a violation of section 5(a)(1) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. § 45(a)(1). We may look to a court’s opinion to supplement its findings, see Hooper's Estate v. Gov't of the Virgin Islands, 427 F.2d 45, 48 (3d Cir. 1970), but the opinion written when the district court denied Airco’s motion to modify the disputed restraint offers little aid in this respect. I therefore concur with the holding of the majority that we must vacate and remand.
I am constrained to disagree with part IV of the majority opinion, however, because I do not share their reservations as to whether there is sufficient evidence on this record from which findings justifying the relief granted could have been made. In any event, I would defer an analysis of the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the grant of the preliminary injunction until the district *201court has made the required findings on remand.
Chief Judge SEITZ joins in this concurring opinion.