Amway

  • Amway - Life Insurance
  • Nutrilite
  • Founded: 1959, Ada, Michigan
  • Founders: Jay Van Andel, Richard Devos 
  • People: Dexter Yager
  • Lawsuits
  • 2011 - Book - My Father’s Dream, by Erik German
  • 1985 - AP - Organizational Deviance in the Direct Selling Industry: A Case Study of the Amway Corporation, by Carol Lynn Juth-Gavasso - 331p
    • On June 4, 1973 Senator Mondale proposed a bill to prohibit pyramid sale transactions. Senate hearings on the bill were held on July 10, 1974
  • 2018 - AP - Compassionate Capitalism: Amway and the Role of Small-Business Conservatives in the New Right, by Davor Mondom - 19p
  • 2019 - AP - Apostles for Capitalism: Amway, Movement Conservatism, and the Remaking of the American Economy, 1959-2009, by Davor Mondom - 389p
  • 1979 - LC - In the Matter of Amway Corporation, Inc, et al, Final Order, Opinion, etc. in Regard to Alleged Violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act - Docket 902 - Complaint, March 25, 1975 - Final Order, May 8, 1979 - 121p
  • LC - The Procter & Gamble Company v. Amway Corporation
    • Case No. H-972384 (S. D. Texas, Houston Division)
    • Plaintiff Expert Witness - Report of Professor G. Robert Blakely, Notre Dame - 39p
      • My area of expertise includes the structure and function of organized crime groups. I have reviewed documents that form the basis for a comparison between the structure and function of organized crime, and the structure and function of the Amway enterprise.
      • II. Opinion - It is my opinion that the Amway business is run in a manner that is parallel to that of major organized crime groups, in particular the Mafia.
  • 1990 - LC -
    • Court of Appeals - Fifth Circuit  
    • No. 99-20590, 242 F.3d 539
  • 2023 - FTC - FOIA - ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Open-FOIA-Report-10022023.pdf
    • 9/6/2023 - FOIA-2023-01728 - Davis, Eaghan
      • I am seeking the accession number for records transfers to the National Archives In the Matter of Amway Corporation, et al, FTC Docket #9023.
      • I received word from an FTC representative that this number no longer exists, but as an attorney, I "trust but verify." (Date Range for Record Search: From 01/01/1970 To 01/01/1985)