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July 24, 1997

Press Release

Seattle-Based Defendants To Pay $288,000 To Settle FTC Charges over Phony Alaskan Fishing Jobs, Scholarship Claims

Date

July 24, 1997

Two Seattle, Washington-based companies and their principal officers have agreed to pay an estimated $288,000 into a redress pool from which partial refunds may be made to students who paid $39.95 to...

Press Release

FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky Testifies before Senate Subcommittee on Mergers and Acquisitions in the Defense Industry

Date

July 24, 1997

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky testified today before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights and Competition on the topic of defense industry mergers and...

July 23, 1997

Press Release

FTC/State "Project Mousetrap" Snares Invention Promotion Industry

Date

July 23, 1997

A significant number of firms in the invention promotion industry are perpetrating a massive fraud on middle American consumers by claiming they have the resources and corporate connections to...

Press Release

Camera Vending Machine Business Scheme Defendants Banned from Selling Franchises under FTC Settlements

Date

July 23, 1997

The defendants in a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit which alleged that they deceptively sold business opportunities for vending machines that dispensed single-use disposable cameras, have agreed to...

Press Release

Quaker State Subsidiaries Settle FTC Charges Against Slick 50

Date

July 23, 1997

Three subsidiaries of Quaker State Corp. have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that ads for Quaker State's Slick 50 Engine Treatment were false and unsubstantiated. Under the terms of...

Case Timeline Item

Davison & Associates, Inc., et al. (timeline item) - July 23, 1997

Date

July 23, 1997

Complaint for Injunction And Other Equitable Relief (19.16 KB)

Brief In Support Of Ex Parte Motion for Temporary Restraining Order (94.93 KB)

Case Timeline Item

Blue Coral, Inc., Blue Coral-Slick 50, Inc., and Blue Coral-Slick 50, Ltd., In the Matter of (timeline item) - July 23, 1997

Date

July 23, 1997

Agreement Containing Cosent Order to Cease and Desist (30.56 KB)

July 21, 1997

Press Release

"Say Cheese!" FTC To Announce "Project Mousetrap"

Date

July 21, 1997

WHAT: The Federal Trade Commission will hold a NEWS CONFERENCE to announce a multi-agency, federal and state campaign called "Project Mousetrap." Mousetrap employs a new strategy to combat the...

Press Release

FTC Announces "Project Deter," a Public/Private Partnership To Focus on Consumer Protection Issues Facing People Moving from Welfare to Work

Date

July 21, 1997

WHAT: A conference kicking off "Project DETER." The goal of the conference is to begin a dialogue about how to protect people who are moving from welfare to work from consumer fraud that might target...

Federal Register Notice

Sunshine Act Meetings - In the Matter of Automotive Breakthrough Sciences, Inc.

Date

July 21, 1997

Case Timeline Item

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, In the Matter of (timeline item) - July 21, 1997

Date

July 21, 1997

Protective Order Governing Confidential Material (312.86 KB)

July 18, 1997

Public Statement

Econometric Analysis in FTC v. Staples

Date

July 18, 1997

At the end of June, a federal district court in Washington, D.C. granted the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) request for a preliminary injunction blocking the Staples-Office Depot merger. (2) The...

Press Release

Announced Actions For July 18, 1997

Date

July 18, 1997

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following action. Commission action regarding petitions to reopen and modify FTC orders: Following a comment period, the FTC has ruled on a petition...

Federal Register Notice

Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period Under the Premerger Notification Rules

Date

July 18, 1997

Federal Register Notice

Report of the Tar, Nicotine, and Carbon Monoxide Yield of 1206 Varieties of Domestic Cigarettes for the Year 1994

Date

July 18, 1997

Case Timeline Item

Nutrition 21, Selene Systems, Inc., and Herbert H Boynton., In the Matter of (timeline item) - July 18, 1997

Date

July 18, 1997

Complaint (33.36 KB)

Decision and Order (21.75 KB)

Case Timeline Item

Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation, In the Matter of (timeline item) - July 18, 1997

Date

July 18, 1997

Order Reopening and Modifying Order (39.92 KB)

July 17, 1997

Report

Milk: Does It Measure Up?

Date

July 17, 1997

Milk: Does It Measure Up? (650.21 KB)

Testimony

Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On H.R. 10, The Financial Service Competition Act of 1997

Date

July 17, 1997

William J. Baer, Former Director, Bureau of Competition

Testimony (58.89 KB)

Press Release

Federal/State Report: "Milk: Does It Measure Up?" Finds Widespread "Short-Filling" of Milk and Other Products

Date

July 17, 1997

A federal/state study of "short-filling" of milk, other dairy products and juice found that over 40 percent of the groups of packages inspected contained less product than stated on their labels --...

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