Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Federal Trade Commission

How later courts describe this case

• defendant's plea in state court to a charge of false advertising was admissible later in a federal prosecution for mail fraud arising from the advertising
• claim that “Regimen Tablets” could reduce weight without dieting contradicted scientific evidence
• where government witnesses’ prior grand jury testimony failed to refresh their recollection, the trial court did not err in receiving that evidence under the past recollection recorded exception