The Wheeler-Lea amendment of 1938 made unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce illegal under:
A) the Sherman Act.
B) the Noerr-Pennington doctrine.
C) the Clayton Act.
D) the Robinson-Patman Act.
E) the Federal Trade Commission Act.

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The original Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act outlawed unfair methods of competition in commerce and directed the FTC to prevent the use of such, but it offered no definition of the specific practices that were unfair. The Wheeler-Lea amendment in 1938 added that "unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce" are also unlawful under Section 5.

The Wheeler-Lea Amendment of 1938 Made Unfair or Deceptive Acts