Commission Actions

Reckitt & Colman PLC has asked the Federal Trade Commission for approval to divest its rug and room deodorizer assets to Block Drug Company, Inc. The assets to be divested include Reckitt's rights in...

The Federal Trade Commission has given final approval to a consent agreement with Montedison S.p.A. and the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies, the world's largest polypropylene producers. The...

W L A R Co., of Falls Church, Virginia, and its owner, Michael K. Craig, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that they deceptively advertised five weight-loss and body-shaping...

The Federal Trade Commission has revised a telemarketing rule it proposed in February to focus more narrowly on deceptive and abusive telemarketing practices, but also to give law enforcement...

The Federal Trade Commission has filed charges against PAL Financial Services, Inc., a telemarketing boilerroom the agency says took in more than $315,000 of the $2.36 million raised in an allegedly...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky has announced the formation of a special task force to review agency rules and policies governing litigation in administrative cases. The task force...

A bill in the Nevada legislature that would restrict automobile brokering -- arranging the sale or lease of new cars and trucks to consumers for a fee -- could reduce competition and increase prices...

The Federal Trade Commission has extended until Aug. 7, 1995 the date through which it will accept comments from the public on the usefulness and effectiveness of its Light Bulb Rule. The rule...

Federal district courts in Ohio and South Carolina have temporarily halted allegedly fraudulent practices used by three telemarketing schemes to sell medical equipment to consumers nationwide...

A federal district court judge has upheld Federal Trade Commission charges against two individuals and their company for their roles in a fraudulent telefunding scheme. The FTC had alleged in federal...

Thirteen of 24 defendants charged by the Federal Trade Commission last year with using a fraudulent prize-promotion pitch to induce consumers, many of them elderly, to donate money to two purported...

The Federal Trade Commission has given final approval to a consent agreement with Felson Builders, Inc., Diamond Crossing Associates, L.P., Elmhurst Partners, L.P., and Joseph Felson, settling charges...

The Federal Trade Commission has tentatively proposed to repeal a rule requiring warnings about handling fiberglass curtains and draperies because the products are no longer in general use. The FTC is...

The Federal Trade Commission has tentatively proposed to repeal three rules governing how the dimensions of sleeping bags, tablecloths and extension ladders are described to consumers in advertising...

I.B. Diffusion, L.P., a Chicago-based importer and dis- tributor of women's clothing and accessories, has agreed to pay a $100,000 civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it...