Commission Actions

PUBLISHED AS: Estimating Demand from eBay Prices This paper presents assumptions and identification results for eBay type auctions. These results are for private value auctions covering three major...

Identifying Demand in EBay Auctions (219.95 KB)

Report

Can Ranking Hospitals on the Basis of Patients’ Travel Distances Improve Quality of Care?

Date

1 de Jun de 2004

Conventional outcomes report cards-- public disclosure of information about the patient-background-adjusted health outcomes of individual hospitals and physicians – may help improve quality, but they...

Can Ranking Hospitals on the Basis of Patients’ Travel Distances Improve Quality of Care? (69.67 KB)

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Canadian Telemarketers Settle FTC Charges

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1 de Jun de 2004

A federal district court has approved a stipulated order including a permanent injunction against Biosource Financial, Inc., Gordon Levy, Jason C. Williams, and Danny Longo, defendants named in a 2002...

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FTC Halts U.S. Sales of Defective Discreet HIV Home Test Kits

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1 de Jun de 2004

A U.S. District Court has issued a Temporary Restraining Order to halt U.S. sales of a HIV/AIDS home test kit. The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint alleging that the kit’s marketer...

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FTC Challenges Bogus Mortgage Loan Brokers

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1 de Jun de 2004

The Federal Trade Commission has charged Phillip W. Ranney and a group of Colorado-based mortgage brokers with violating federal laws by deceptively claiming that they will refinance consumers’...

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Ranney, Phillip W., individually; Armor Mortgage; et al. (timeline item) - June 1, 2004

Date

1 de Jun de 2004

Complaint (525.4 KB)

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Consumer Alliance, Inc., a Delaware corporation, et al. (timeline item) - June 1, 2004

Date

1 de Jun de 2004

Stipulated Order as to Redress Against Defendants Biosource Financial, Inc., Gordon Levoy, Jason C. Williams, and Danny Longo (130.83 KB)

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Seville Marketing, Ltd., et al. (timeline item) - June 1, 2004

Date

1 de Jun de 2004

Complaint for Permanent Injunction and Other Equitable Relief (49.79 KB)

Temporary Restraining Order with Order Directing Seizure of Goods and Order to Show Cause Why a Preliminary Injunction Should Not Issue (216.31 KB)

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Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corporation and ENH Medical Group, Inc. (timeline item) - June 1, 2004

Date

1 de Jun de 2004

Complaint Counsels Second Request for Production of Documents Issued to Respondents (20.04 KB)

Amicus Briefs

Jackson, Tennessee Hospital Co. v. West Tennessee Healthcare, Inc

Date

1 de Jun de 2004

Citation Number

04-5387

Federal Court

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Joint brief of the United States and the Federal Trade Commission urging reversal of district court order dismissing private antitrust action on grounds of the state action doctrine.

Jackson, Tennessee Hospital Co. v. West Tennessee Healthcare, Inc (60.04 KB)

Advocacy Filings

FTC Staff Comment to the Honorable Gene DeRossett Concerning Michigan H.B. 4757, the Petroleum Marketing Stabilization Act

Date

1 de Jun de 2004

Matter Number

V040019

FTC Staff Comment to the Honorable Gene DeRossett Concerning Michigan H.B. 4757, the Petroleum Marketing Stabilization Act (23.6 KB)

Related Release

Announced Action for June 18, 2004

28 de mayo de 2004

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Announced Action for May 28, 2004

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28 de mayo de 2004

Commission comment to the federal banking agencies and National Credit Union Administration: The Federal Trade Commission has submitted comments to the federal banking agencies and the National Credit...

27 de mayo de 2004

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Statement of Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy J. Muris on the GAO Study on 1990s Oil Mergers and Concentration Released Today

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27 de mayo de 2004

In 30 years as an antitrust enforcer, academic, and consultant on antitrust issues, I have rarely seen a report so fundamentally flawed as the GAO study of several oil mergers that the Federal Trade...

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FTC Halts Unauthorized Bank Charges in Bogus Pharmacy Card Scam

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27 de mayo de 2004

The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit in federal court to halt a scam that drained millions of dollars out of thousands of consumers’ checking accounts for “discount pharmacy cards” the...

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