News Releases for July 2000
July 28, 2000
- For Your Information: July 28, 2000
Announced Actions for July 28, 2000
Consent Agreement in Riley Manufactured Homes, Inc.; Consent Agreement in Pfizer Inc./Warner Lambert Co.; Care Labeling Rule exemption for Espirit de Corps.
- For Release: July 28, 2000
Federal Trade Commission Issues Interim Report on Midwest Gas Price Investigation
No Conclusions Yet Reached; Investigation Likely To Continue For At Least Three to Four More Months
July 27, 2000
- For Release: July 27, 2000
Federal Trade Commission Issues Report on Online Profiling
Commends Network Advertising Initiative's Self Regulatory Principles
- For Your Information: July 27, 2000
Establishing Pharmacy Network as Proposed Not Likely to Restrain Competition, FTC Staff Advises
A plan to establish a network of independent pharmacies in Massachusetts and Connecticut that will market a package of medication-related patient care services provided by participating pharmacies to physician groups, self-insured employers, and managed care organizations is not likely to restrain competition in any market, according to the staff of the Federal Trade Commission.
July 26, 2000
- For Release: July 26, 2000
FTC Votes to Amend Its Care Labeling Rule For Clothing
Closing Formal Rulemaking, Commission Does Not Adopt Two Revisions Under Consideration
- For Release: July 26, 2000
Seven Internet Retailers Settle FTC Charges Over Shipping Delays During 1999 Holiday Season
Agreements Include $1.5 Million in Civil Penalties
- For Release: July 26, 2000
"Operation Misprint" Defendants Banned from Telemarketing Of Nondurable Office, Cleaning or Janitorial Supplies As Part of FTC Settlement
Quality Maintenance Supplies, Inc., based in Chicago, and its principal, Joanne M. Drobut, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they shipped and billed consumers for unordered maintenance supplies.
July 25, 2000
- For Your Information: July 25, 2000
Announced Actions for July 25, 2000
Consent Agreement in J&R Research; Economic Perspectives on the Internet
- For Release: July 25, 2000
FTC Agreement Allows Delhaize America, Inc. and Hannaford Bros. Co. Merger of East Coast Supermarkets
Thirty-seven Hannaford Stores and One Supermarket Site to be Divested to Up-front Buyers
July 24, 2000
- For Release: July 24, 2000
Adult Web Sites Settle FTC Charges
"Free" Site Operators To Provide Refunds To Consumers They Billed
July 21, 2000
- For Release: July 21, 2000
FTC Announces Settlement With Bankrupt Website, Toysmart.com, Regarding Alleged Privacy Policy Violations
Agreement Enforces Privacy Promises, Prohibits Sale of Customer Lists Except Under Very Restricted Circumstances; Company Also Faces First Charge of Violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
- For Your Information: July 21, 2000
FTC Staff Issues Report on Restructuring in Electric Power Industry
The Federal Trade Commission today issued a staff report addressing many competition and consumer protection issues that arise in restructuring the electric power industry.
July 20, 2000
- For Release: July 20, 2000
Rexall Sundown Charged by FTC With Making False and Unsubstantiated Claims for "Cellasene"™
The Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit in federal district court charging Rexall Sundown, Inc. with making false and unsubstantiated claims while marketing its dietary supplement, Cellasene™, as a purported cellulite treatment.
- For Release: July 20, 2000
United States and Australia Sign Two Agreements to Enhance Cooperation on Consumer Protection Matters
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced today that representatives of both commissions have signed two agreements to facilitate enhanced law enforcement cooperation in the consumer protection area between the United States and Australia.
July 18, 2000
- For Release: July 18, 2000
Sub-prime Lender Agrees to Settle FTC Charges of Violating Federal Lending and Consumer Protection Laws
Nu West, Inc., a Bellevue, Washington-based lender, and company owner Georg Frey, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they violated the Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act (HOEPA), the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), and the FTC Act when making high-cost loans to consumers that were secured by their homes.
- For Your Information: July 18, 2000
Announced Action(s) for July 18, 2000
Approval of application to divest Colonial Pipeline interest received from Exxon Mobil Corp.; approval of application to divest Cushing Oklahoma assets received from BP-Amoco p.l.c./Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO); approval of extension of a time period for Haemacure Corporation in Baxter International, Inc.
July 17, 2000
- Media Advisory: July 17, 2000
FTC to Hold Two-Day Public Forum on Telemarketing Sales Rule
The Federal Trade Commission will hold a two-day public forum beginning on Thursday, July 27, 2000 at 8:30 a.m. to review the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR).
- For Release: July 17, 2000
FTC Chairman Pitofsky Speaks on Global E-Commerce Issues at ABA Meeting
Addresses Need to Balance Interests of Consumers and Business
- For Release: July 17, 2000
Web Sites Warned to Comply With Children's Online Privacy Law
FTC Also Works to Educate Children's Sites About Law's Privacy Protections
July 14, 2000
- For Your Information: July 14, 2000
Announced Action(s) for July 14, 2000
Application for approval of proposed divestiture received from Dominion Resources, Inc. and Consolidated Natural Gas Company (CNG).; Approved publication of a Federal Register notice re: Franchise Rule via the Internet and also re:Workshop on B2B Electronic Marketplaces; Approved the release of the Sunshine Act Report for 1999; Comment filed with the Arkansas Public Service Commission (APSC) regarding APSC's proposed Staff Standard Service Package (SSP) Guidelines
July 13, 2000
- For Release: July 13, 2000
FTC and Other Law Enforcers Knock Out Fraudulent Prize Promoters
The Federal Trade Commission and other law enforcement officials have put the gloves back on to knock out the latest round of prize promotion fraud.
- For Release: July 13, 2000
FTC Competition Director Testifies Before Senate Regarding Recent Midwest Gasoline Price Increases
Presenting Federal Trade Commission testimony today before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources regarding recent gasoline price increases in the Midwest, FTC Competition Director Richard G. Parker described several potential causes for the increases and assured Congress that the Commission's investigation into whether such increases have resulted from anti-competitive, collusive or otherwise illegal behavior will be "thorough, objective and as expeditious as possible."
July 12, 2000
- For Release: July 12, 2000
Statement of Richard G. Parker, Director, FTC Bureau of Competition
FTC, 33 State Attorneys General, Mylan Laboritories, Inc. and Other Defendants Request Suspension of Pretrial Proceedings
- For Release: July 12, 2000
North American Capital Corp. Agrees to Pay $250,000 Civil Penalty to Settle Charges of Violating Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
North American Capital Corporation (NACC) has agreed to pay a $250,000 civil penalty as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission to resolve allegations that it violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) when attempting to collect delinquent consumer credit accounts.
- For Release: July 12, 2000
FTC Testifies on Identity Theft
Calls To FTC Toll-Free Hotline Double Since March
- For Release: July 12, 2000
Online Pharmacies Settle FTC Charges
Viagra, Propecia Prescriptions Promoted With False Medical Claims Consumers' Medical and Financial Data Collected With False Privacy Assurances
July 11, 2000
- For Release: July 11, 2000
United States and Mexico Sign Antitrust Cooperation Agreement
The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice announced today that representatives of the United States and Mexico have signed a bilateral cooperation agreement to facilitate more effective antitrust enforcement in both countries.
- For Release: July 11, 2000
FTC Testifies Before Senate Special Committee on Aging on Living Trust Scams
Issues New Facts for Consumers
July 10, 2000
- For Release: July 10, 2000
FTC Sues Failed Website, Toysmart.com, for Deceptively Offering for Sale Personal Information of Website Visitors
The Federal Trade Commission today filed a complaint against Toysmart.com, LLC, and Toysmart.com, Inc., a failed Internet retailer of children's toys, in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts seeking injunctive and declaratory relief to prevent the sale of confidential, personal customer information collected on the company Web site in violation of its own privacy policy.
- For Release: July 10, 2000
FTC Reaches Court Settlement with Third "Trip Trap" Defendant
Commission Order Includes Permanent Ban from Travel- or Vacation-related Telemarketing
July 7, 2000
- For Release: July 7, 2000
FTC to Challenge Merger of Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. and H.J. Heinz Co.
Companies are Number Two and Three U.S. Baby Food Producers
- For Your Information: July 7, 2000
FTC Releases "Tar, Nicotine, and Carbon Monoxide of the Smoke of 1,294 Varieties of Domestic Cigarettes For the Year 1998"
The Federal Trade Commission made public today the results of "tar," nicotine and carbon monoxide testing for 1,294 varieties of domestic cigarettes sold in 1998.
- For Your Information: July 7, 2000
Announced Action for July 7, 2000
Application for approval of proposed divestiture received from Exxon Mobil Corporation.
July 6, 2000
- For Release: July 6, 2000
FTC Shuts Down Internet Pyramid Scheme
Five Star Auto Club Defendants To Pay $2.9 Million; Barred For Life From Multi-Level Marketing Businesses
- For Release: July 6, 2000
Credit Repair Operators Settle FTC Charges
"New Credit Identity" Promotions Halted