The following excerpt is from Von Wiegen, Matter of, 470 N.E.2d 838, 481 N.Y.S.2d 40, 63 N.Y.2d 163 (N.Y. 1984):
Respondent disputes these findings by adopting a hypertechnical analysis of the term "committee", as encompassing an organization with one member, and a liberal interpretation of "some and many" which minimizes any distinction between those two terms. There was ample support in the record for petitioner's interpretation and there was no need to establish that the letters actually mislead the recipients. It is the potential for deception which is significant (see Ohralik v. Ohio State Bar Assn., 436 U.S. 447, 464, 98 S.Ct. 1912, 1922, supra ).
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