Every year the FTC brings hundreds of cases against individuals and companies for violating consumer protection and competition laws that the agency enforces. These cases can involve fraud, scams, identity theft, false advertising, privacy violations, anti-competitive behavior and more. The Legal Library has detailed information about cases we have brought in federal court or through our internal administrative process, called an adjudicative proceeding.
North Lake Tahoe Medical Group, Inc.
Physicians practicing in the North and South Lake Tahoe areas settled charges that they conspired to fix the prices and terms for professional services. The consent order prohibits the IPA from engaging in collective negotiations to fix prices; refusing to deal with third party payers; and coercing payers into accepting PA fee schedules and minimum reimbursement rates.
Rohm & Haas Company, and Morton International, Inc., In the Matter of
Rohm & Haas settled charges that its acquisition of Morton International, Inc. would lessen competition in North American for the production and sale of water-based floor care polymers used in the formulation of floor care products such as polishes. The consent order requires the divestiture of Morton's worldwide water-based floor care polymers business to GenCorp, Inc.
Summit Photographix, Inc. et al.
LAP Financial Services, Inc. and Louis A. Pomerance
CLS Financial Services, Inc. and Gerald Vanhook
Tri-State Advertising Unlimited, Inc.
T.E.M.M. Marketing, Inc., et al.
Statement of Chairman Robert Pitofsky, Commissioner Sheila Anthony, and Commissioner Mozelle Thompson in T.E.M.M. Marketing, Inc
Statement of Commissioner Orson Swindle Concurring in Part and Dissenting in Part in T.E.M.M. Marketing, Inc
Statement of Commissioner Orson Swindle Concurring in Part and Dissenting in Part TriState Advertising Unlimited, Inc
Statement of Chairman Robert Pitofsky, Commissioner Sheila Anthony, and Commissioner Mozelle Thompson in To Tri-State Advertising Unlimited, Inc
Design Zone, Inc.
Statement of Commissioner Swindle, Concurring in Part and Dissenting in Part, In the Matter of Ciba-Geigy Corporation, and Ciba-Medication, Inc.
OneSource Worldwide Network, Inc., et al.
Sneed, Melinda R. and Sneed, John L. d/b/a Arthritis Pain Care Center
Magnetic Theraputic Technologies, Inc. (Operation Cure All)
CMS Energy Corporation
Consent order requires Consumer Energy, a CMS subsidiary, to "loan" natural gas from its own system to shippers on third-party pipelines if the interconnection capacity with competing pipelines falls below historical levels settling charges that its acquisition of two natural gas pipelines, Panhandle Eastern Pipeline and Trunkline Pipeline, from Duke Energy Company, could reduce competition and increase consumer prices for natural gas and electricity in 54 counties in Michigan.