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.
Graco, Inc., Illinois Tool Works Inc., and ITW Finishing LL
Vaughn, Tanner Garrett, individually and d/b/a Lead Expose, Inc., and Uptown Media, Inc.
Universal Health Services, Inc., Psychiatric Solutions, Inc., and Alan B. Miller, In the Matter of
The FTC required Universal Health Services, Inc., one of the nation’s largest hospital management companies, to sell 15 psychiatric facilities as a condition of its $3.1 billion acquisition of Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. As originally proposed the acquisition would have reduced competition in the provision of acute inpatient psychiatric services in three local markets: Delaware, Puerto Rico, and metropolitan Las Vegas, Nevada.
Acquisition by HCA, Inc. of Cardiology Practices in the Austin, Texas Area
Statement of Commissioner Rosch, Concurring In Part and Dissenting In Part - In the Matter of McWane, Inc and Star Pipe Products, Ltd, and In the Matter of Sigma Corporation
Universal Computers and Electronics, Inc., d/b/a Appliancebestbuys.com, and d/b/a universallcdtv.com, In the Matter of
ScanScout, Inc., In the Matter of
Americall Group, Inc., et al., United States of America (for the FTC)
Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Express Consolidation, Inc., et al.
Royal Tronics, Inc. d/b/a MyCandyEyes.com, and Jamil Hindi, U.S.
BASF SE, a corporation, in the Matter of
BASF has settled Commission charges that its proposed $5.1 billion acquisition of rival chemical manufacturer Ciba Holding Inc. would be anticompetitive and violate federal law by reducing competition in the worldwide markets for two high performance pigments. Under the terms of a consent order allowing the transaction to proceed, the FTC requires BASF to sell all assets, including the intellectual property related to the two pigments, bismuth vanadate and indanthrone blue, to a Commission-approved buyer within six months.