Commission Actions

Kovacic is currently the E.K. Gubin Professor of Government Contracts Law at George Washington University Law School, where he began to teach in 1999. He was the FTC’s General Counsel from 2001...

December 16, 2005

Press Release

Announced Actions for December 16, 2005

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December 16, 2005

Commission approval of staff comments: The Commission has approved the filing of comments by the staffs of the Bureau of Competition, the Bureau of Economics, and the Office of Policy Planning with...

Press Release

FTC to Unveil Cross-Border Initiatives Targeting Illegal Spam

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December 16, 2005

Press conference to announce civil and criminal law enforcement initiatives targeting illegal spam operations announced by the FTC, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Canadian Competition Bureau, and the...

Federal Register Notice

Charges for Certain Disclosures - Fair Credit Reporting Act Section 612(f)

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December 16, 2005

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Superior Mortgage Corp., In the Matter of (timeline item) - December 16, 2005

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December 16, 2005

Complaint (35.32 KB)

Exhibit A (352.49 KB)

Decision and Order (34.68 KB)

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Basic Research, In the Matter of (timeline item) - December 16, 2005

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December 16, 2005

Complaint Counsel's Consolidated Opposition to Respondents' Motions for Reconsideration, Clarification, or Certification of November 22nd Orders Denying Respondents' Motions to Exclude An Expert, Sanction Counsel, Add a Witness, and Reopen Discovery (1.22 MB)

Complaint Counsel's Objections to Respondents' Late Disclosure Of Eight Witnesses and Additional Purported Substantiation and Motion to Strike and Exclude Such Testimony and Evidence (3.85 MB)

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Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corporation and ENH Medical Group, Inc. (timeline item) - December 16, 2005

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December 16, 2005

Motion of Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations For Leave to File Amicus Curiae Brief In Support of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corporation (410.4 KB)

Motion of the City of Highland Park to File Brief Amicus Curiae in Support of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corporation and the City of Highland Park's Brief Amicus Curiae in Support of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corporation (910.33 KB)

Motion of the Business Roundtable For Leave to File Amicus Curiae Brief In Support of Evanston Northwestern HealthCare (741.63 KB)

Motion of the American Hospital Association for Leave to File a Brief as Amicus Curiae Supporting Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corporation (1.91 MB)

Motion of The Advisory Board Company For Leave to File Amicus Curiae Brief In Support of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corporation (735.48 KB)

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Procter & Gamble Company and The Gillette Company, In the Matter of (timeline item) - December 16, 2005

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December 16, 2005

Commission Letter Approving Proposed Divestiture Of The Rembrandt Assets To Johnson & Johnson (30.55 KB)

Decision and Order (257.91 KB)

Order to Maintain Assets (38.89 KB)

Complaint (19.28 KB)

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Associated Octel Company Limited, The, In the Matter of (timeline item) - December 16, 2005

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December 16, 2005

Request for Approval of Modifications in Core Provisions of the Supply Agreement, Pursuant to the Consent Order (Public Record Version) (290.85 KB)

December 15, 2005

Press Release

Alleged Pyramid Scheme Operators Banned from Multi-level Marketing

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December 15, 2005

The Federal Trade Commission has settled charges against three corporations and their owners and officers that the defendants used deceptive practices to promote their multilevel-marketing program and...

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Trek Alliance, Inc., et. al (timeline item) - December 15, 2005

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December 15, 2005

Stipulated Final Order For Permanent Injunction and Other Equitable Relief Against Defendants Richard Von Alvensleben and Tiffani Von Alvensleben (1.36 MB)

Stipulated Final Order For Permanent Injunction and Other Equitable Relief Against Corporate Defendants Trek Alliance, Inc., Trek Education Corp., and VonFlagg Corp. (1.06 MB)

Stipulated Final Order for Permanent Injunction and Other Equitable Relief Against Defendant Harry Flagg (1.16 MB)

Stipulated Final Order For Permanent Injunction and Other Equitable Relief Against Jeffrey Kale Flagg, aka Kale Flagg (1.42 MB)

December 14, 2005

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Basic Research, In the Matter of (timeline item) - December 14, 2005

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December 14, 2005

Order on Complaint Counsel's Objections to Late Disclosed Witnesses and Exhibit (270.94 KB)

Order Granting Respondents' Motion to File Draft Orders (37.38 KB)

December 13, 2005

Press Release

DIRECTV to Pay $5.3 Million Penalty For Do Not Call Violations

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December 13, 2005

Satellite television provider DIRECTV will pay $5,335,000 to settle FTC charges that, since October 2003, DIRECTV and companies it hired to promote DIRECTV programming have been violating the Do Not...

Press Release

Announced Actions for December 13, 2005

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December 13, 2005

Request for approval of consent order modifications: The Commission has received a request for approval of proposed modifications to a supply agreement required by a 1999 consent order with The...

Cases and Proceedings

Petitions to Quash