FTC Wins in Appeal of Deceptive Practices, Sanctions Judgment

The Federal Trade Commission convinced a federal appeals court to uphold a lower court decision that two businessmen were liable for civil contempt sanctions related to a deceptive practices scheme.

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in a Monday order dismissed an appeal by businessmen Burton Katz and Brent Levison, who argued that a district court was wrong to grant summary judgment and impose $19.5 million in sanctions against them.

Katz and Levison didn’t appeal the district court decision until April 2023, making the appeal untimely, the Eleventh Circuit ruled. And because Katz and Levison’s challenge to ...