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Odysseus Marketing, Inc., and Walter Rines (timeline item) - January 31, 2008
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January 31, 2008
January 30, 2008
Imbee.com Settles FTC Charges Social Networking Site for Kids Violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act; Settlement Includes $130,000 Civil Penalty
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The operators of imbee.com, a social networking site specifically targeting kids and “tweens,” have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their data-collection practices violated...
Sellers of Obesity Treatment Program Settle with FTC for False Weight-Loss Claims
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Sellers of the “Centro Natural de Salud Obesity Treatment” have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false and unsubstantiated claims that their product causes rapid...
Online Advertiser Settles FTC Charges. "Free" Products Weren't Free; Settlement Calls for $200,000 Civil Penalty
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An online advertiser that drove traffic to its Web sites using spam e-mails with misleading subject lines has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it failed to disclose that...
January 29, 2008
Commission Approves Amicus Brief Filing in Matter of Arkansas Carpenters Health and Welfare Fund v. Bayer AG; FTC Authorizes Filing of Joint FTC/DOJ Letter with Hawaii Supreme Court Regarding Proposed Rules Regarding the Practice of Law
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Commission approval of amicus brief filing: The FTC’s Office of General Counsel has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the matter of In re Ciprofloxacin...
Dietary Supplement Marketers Violated Court Order in Some of Their Ads
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Dietary supplement marketers must run more frequent and prominent advertising disclosures after violating a court order entered against them two years ago. The original order settled Federal Trade...
Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice to Host Workshop on International Technical Assistance
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The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division today announced that they will host a joint workshop entitled, “2008 International Technical Assistance Workshop...
FTC Settles Charges Against Telemarketer that Made More Than 46 Million Unlawful Prerecorded Calls
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced a complaint and proposed consent decree settling charges that a California-based “voice broadcaster” made over 46 million unlawful telemarketing calls. The...
Federal Register Notice
Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period Under the Premerger Notification Rules
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Voice-Mail Broadcasting Corporation and Jesse Crowe., U.S. (for the FTC) (timeline item) - January 29, 2008
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January 28, 2008
District Court Bars the Sale of Consumers Telephone Records to Third Parties
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A federal judge has barred the illegal operation of an information broker who advertised and sold confidential consumer telephone records to third parties without the consumers’ knowledge or consent...
FTC Submits Staff Comment to the Department of the Treasurys Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
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The Federal Trade Commission has submitted a staff comment to the Department of the Treasury’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (“TTB”) concerning a proposed rulemaking on alcohol labeling...
FTC Issues Annual Financial Acts Enforcement Report to Federal Reserve
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The Federal Trade Commission has issued its annual report to the Federal Reserve Board on FTC enforcement activities in 2007 related to the Truth in Lending Act, Consumer Leasing Act, Equal Credit...
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