Commission Actions

The staff of the Federal Trade Commission yesterday filed a comment with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) about the relationships between regulated electric utilities and their affiliated...

Consumer Credit Services, Inc. (CCS), based in Las Vegas, Nevada, has agreed to settle charges that it defrauded consumers nationwide through the deceptive telemarketing of credit cards and lines of...

Consent agreements given final approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final consent agreements with the following entities. The Commission action makes the consent orders...

A group of Louisiana physicians has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it unlawfully fixed prices, which increased the cost of physician services and medical insurance coverage for...

In the latest development in the Federal Trade Commission’s case against a Nevada telemarketing operation doing business as the Sterling Group, Judge Lloyd D. George, of the U.S. District Court for...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced a settlement with Designer Checks, Inc. of Anniston, Alabama. In a consent decree filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama...

Commission action regarding petitions to reopen and modify FTC orders: Following a public comment period, the FTC has ruled on a petition from the following: A final order against Schnuck Markets, Inc...

The Federal Trade Commission today told the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee that the proliferation of deceptive, unsolicited commercial e-mail -- "spam" -- could undermine...

In testimony today before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky cited globalization, deregulation and technological changes as some of the factors...