Commission Actions

The Federal Trade Commission yesterday issued an administrative challenge to the $40 million proposed merger of Lucy Lee Hospital, owned by Tenet Healthcare Corporation (Tenet), and Doctors Regional...

The Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement agreement with Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon over charges that their proposed joint venture to develop, manufacture, and sell viscosity index...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has voted to retain the Negative Option Rule, which governs the operation of prenotification subscription plans. Under these plans, sellers ship...

The Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and California law enforcement officials today announced a joint action against telemarketers who allegedly violated California’s...

Three California-based telemarketing companies and their owner, Hari Jiwan Singh Khalsa, have agreed to settle charges filed by the Federal Trade Commission as part of "Project Field of Schemes" -- a...

Federal and state authorities today released a nationwide study of the accuracy of net content labeling of milk. The report, a follow-up to a 1997 study, shows that there has been considerable...

Staff of the Federal Trade Commission have advised a group of neurologists in the Los Angeles area that they do not intend to recommend a challenge to the neurologists' plan to establish an...

GeoCities, one of the most popular sites on the World Wide Web, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it misrepresented the purposes for which it was collecting personal...