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.
Campbell Mithun LLC, In the Matter of
Marketing And Vending Concepts, L.L.C., et al.
Holiday Plus Travel, LLC, et al.
Bigsmart.com L.L.C.; Mark Tahiliani; and Harry Tahiliani
American Information Labor Services, Inc., American Data Bureau, LLC, et al.
Federated Department Stores
Nationwide Industrial Technologies and Darrell Clark
Glaxo Wellcome plc, and SmithKline Beecham plc, In the Matter of
Under terms of a final consent order settling charges stemming from the merger of SmithKline and Glaxo Wellcome plc, the parties agreed to divest pharmaceutical products in six markets: antiemetics; the antibiotic, ceftazidime; oral and intravenous antiviral drugs for the treatment of herpes; topical antiviral drugs for the treatment of genital herpes; and over-the-counter H-2 blocker acid relief products.
Novartis AG, AStraZeneca, PLC, and Syngenta AG, In the Matter of
The consent order permits the merger of Novartis and AstraZeneca PLC into a new Swiss company, Syngenta AG. The order requires Novartis to divest its worldwide foliar fungicide business (based on the strobilurin chemical class) to Bayer Ag; and requires AstraZeneca to divest its worldwide com herbicide business (based on the active ingredient acetochlor) to Dow AgroSciences LLC.