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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Appellee, v. SECURITY RARE COIN & BULLIO... Page 4 of 6 reasoning and hold that section 13(b) empowers district courts to grant the type of ancillary equitable relief entered by the district court in this case. 8 Security Coin argues that section 19 of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 57b, is the only authorization for the FTC to obtain consumer redress, and that our decision in United States v. Hopkins Dodge, Inc., 849 F.2d 311, 313 (8th Cir.1988), requires a restrictive reading of the Act. Security Coin argues that we should not permit the FTC to avoid complying with section 19(b)'s procedural requirements for obtaining consumer redress. If the district court is allowed to award other equitable relief under section 13(b), Security Coin argues, section 19 will be rendered superfluous. 9 We note that section 19(e) provides: "Remedies provided in this section are in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other remedy or right of action provided by State or Federal law. Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect any authority of the Commission under any other provision of law." There can be no inference from this language that Congress intended in section 19 to restrict the broad equitable jurisdiction granted to the district court by section 13(b). Our decision in Hopkins Dodge contains nothing that would require us to give section 13(b) the restrictive reading urged by Security Coin. We held in Hopkins Dodge that the FTC could not seek civil penalties under section 5(m)(1)(B) of the Act, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 45(m)(1)(B), until it had complied with the requirements of that provision by first issuing a cease and desist order determining that the practices in question were unfair or deceptive. Here, we consider the power of the district court, not the procedures that the FTC must follow under certain sections of the Act. Hopkins Dodge does not require that the FTC proceed under section 19, but merely constrains the FTC to follow the procedures of section 5(m)(1)(B)when seeking relief under that same section. 10 We conclude that"[w]hen Congress entrusts to an equity court the enforcement of prohibitions contained in a regulatory enactment, it must be taken to have acted cognizant of the historic power of equity to provide complete relief in light of the statutory purposes." Mitchell v. Robert DeMario Jewelry, Inc., 361 U.S. at 291-92, 80 S.Ct. at 334-36. Accordingly, we hold that the district court had the power to grant the relief it did to those consumers harmed by Security Coin's unfair and deceptive trade practices. III. 11 Security Coin argues that the district court erred in premising its grant of consumer redress on Security Coin's buy-back policy. 12 Security Coin points out that the FTC did not allege that Security Coin's buy-back policy was an unfair or deceptive trade practice in violation of section 5(a) of the Act. Security Coin argues that because the FTC failed to http://www.altlaw.org/v 1/cases/477126 12/5/2008