News Releases for January 2001

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January 31, 2001

• For Release: January 31, 2001
  FTC Clears Sale of Gulf South Pipeline Co. To Entergy-Koch, LP
  Order will Remedy Anticompetitive Effects by Requiring Open-Solicitation Process by Entergy
• For Your Information: January 31, 2001
  New Federal Trade Commission Consumer Alert Helps Consumers Comparison Shop for a Home Equity Loan
• For Release: January 31, 2001
  FTC Kicks off "Operation Detect Pretext"
  Warns Firms to Comply with Federal Laws That Protect Consumers' Personal Information

January 30, 2001

• For Release: January 30, 2001
  Phony Medical Billing Telemarketers Banned From Engaging in Medical Billing and Work At Home Business Opportunities:
  Defendants Were Part of FTC'S "PROJECT BIZ-ILLION$" Sweep
• For Your Information: January 30, 2001
  Announced Actions for January 30, 2001
  Closing an investigation related to: SmithKline Beecham/Glaxo Wellcome; Final consent order regarding: The Valspar Corporation, SmithKline Beecham/Glaxo Wellcome, Computer Sciences Corporation and Mynd Corporation; Final modified consent order in: Exxon Mobil Corporation; Commission statement given before the Washington State Senate
• For Release: January 30, 2001
  FTC Finds Online Holiday Shopping Experience Improved For Consumers in 2000

January 29, 2001

• For Release: January 29, 2001
  FTC Clears Merger of El Paso Energy and Coastal Corp.
  Multiple Pipeline Divestitures Ordered To Safeguard Competition
• For Release: January 29, 2001
  Telemarketer Offering Credit Cards That Never Arrived Agrees to Settle FTC Charges;
  Defendant Permanently Banned From Any Future Telemarketing Efforts
• For Release: January 29, 2001
  Pyramid Promoters Settle FTC Charges
• Embargoed for 9:30 am Release: January 31, 2001
  Consumer Fraud, Identity Theft Data Goes Public
  Statistics Culled from Database of More Than 300,000 Consumer Complaints

January 26, 2001

• For Release: January 26, 2001
  Federal Trade Commission and Department of Defense Announce Soldier Sentinel

January 25, 2001

• For Release: January 29, 2001
  Sharp Electronics to Provide Redress for Allegedly Misleading Consumers about its Handheld Personal Computers
  Company Advertised that Mobilon™ Buyers Could Upgrade to Latest Version of Windows CE™
• For Release: January 29, 2001
  Investment Software Vendors Settle FTC Charges
  Ads Promised High Returns and Low Risk
• For Release: January 29, 2001
  Major Changes to Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification Requirements to Take Effect February 1, 2001
  Filing Threshold Will be Increased to $50 Million; Fees to Vary Based on Size of Transaction

January 19, 2001

• For Your Information: January 19, 2001
  Announced Actions for January 19, 2001
  Final approval given in R.S. of Houston Workshop and WFS Enterprises, Inc.; Federal Register notices on Statutorily Mandated Changes in the Jurisdictional Thresholds for Section 8 of the Clayton Act and Public Roundtable on Dispute Resolution for Online Business-to-Consumer Contracts.

January 17, 2001

• For Release: January 17, 2001
  California Defendants that Deceptively Marketed and Sold Auction Information Guides for Homes and Cars Agree to Pay Consumer Redress to Settle FTC Charges
  Two of the Individual Defendants Will Also Be Permanently Banned from Telemarketing Any Home or Vehicle Information Guides

January 16, 2001

• For Release: January 16, 2001
  Manufacturers of Rapid HIV Tests Settle FTC Charges
  Agency Alleges Rapid Tests Produced Inaccurate Results

January 10, 2001

• For Release: January 10 2001
  FTC and Electronic Retailing Association To Host Seminar on Internet Marketing

January 9, 2001

• For Your Information: January 9, 2001
  FTC Reaches Agreement with Winn-Dixie Regarding its Planned Purchase of 68 Stores from Bankrupt Jitney-Jungle Chain
  Order Would Remedy Anticompetitive Effects of Firm's Acquisition of Supermarkets, Assets
• For Your Information: January 9, 2001
  Announced Actions for January 9, 200l
  Authorization to submit an advocacy comment to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
• For Your Information: January 9, 2001
  FTC Report to Congress Shows Increases in Smokeless Tobacco Revenues, and Advertising and Promotional Expenditures

January 5, 2001

• For Your Information: January 5, 2001
  Announced Actions for January 5, 200l
  Final approval of consent agreement in Boeing Co./Hughes Electronics; dismissal of Part 3 administrative complaint in Swedish Match North America
• For Release: January 5, 2001
  Federal Agencies, State Attorneys General Crack down on Deceptive Mail Offers, Unsolicited Faxes and "Spam"
  Nationwide Coordinated Law Enforcement Actions Taken as Part of "Project Mailbox IV"

January 1, 2001

• For Release: January 2, 2001
  Tennessee Telemarketers Banned from Selling Office Supplies As Part of FTC Settlement
  Defendants Were Named as Part of "Operation Misprint"