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Advocacy Filings

FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. Jim Horn Concerning Texas H.B. 1579 to Regulate Landscape Architects

Date

May 1, 1989

Matter Number

V890057

File

FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. Jim Horn Concerning Texas H.B. 1579 to Regulate Landscape Architects (4.87 MB)

Advocacy Filings

FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. Barbara Flynn Curie Concerning H.B. 165 to Regulate Certain Business Combinations

Date

May 1, 1989

Matter Number

V890062

File

FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. Barbara Flynn Curie Concerning H.B. 165 to Regulate Certain Business Combinations (8.98 MB)

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FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. Jack Jeffrey Concerning Nevada S.B. 86 to Prohibit a Physical Therapist From Paying or Receiving Any Fees in Consideration for a Patient Referral

Date

May 1, 1989

Matter Number

V890071

File

FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. Jack Jeffrey Concerning Nevada S.B. 86 to Prohibit a Physical Therapist From Paying or Receiving Any Fees in Consideration for a Patient Referral (611 KB)

Advocacy Filings

FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. John C. Bartley Concerning MA S.B. 526 to Require Prepaid Health Benefits Programs to Allow All Pharmacies to Provide Services to Subscribers on the Same Terms

Date

May 1, 1989

Matter Number

V8900067

File

FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. John C. Bartley Concerning MA S.B. 526 to Require Prepaid Health Benefits Programs to Allow All Pharmacies to Provide Services to Subscribers on the Same Terms (6.34 MB)

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FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. Jennings G. McAbee Concerning South Carolina H.R. 3899 to Rollback Wholesale Gasoline Prices to April, 1989 Levels

Date

May 1, 1989

Matter Number

V890072

File

FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. Jennings G. McAbee Concerning South Carolina H.R. 3899 to Rollback Wholesale Gasoline Prices to April, 1989 Levels (2.27 MB)

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FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. O.H. Harris Concerning Texas S.B. 454 to License Interior Designers

Date

May 1, 1989

Matter Number

V890045

File

FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. O.H. Harris Concerning Texas S.B. 454 to License Interior Designers (2.88 MB)

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FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. William R. Ratliff Concerning Texas S.B. 974 to Ban Certain Forms of Below Cost Pricing

Date

May 1, 1989

Matter Number

V890066

File

FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. William R. Ratliff Concerning Texas S.B. 974 to Ban Certain Forms of Below Cost Pricing (5.48 MB)

April 25, 1989

FTC Charges National Business Consultants Inc. Deceived Purchasers; Asks Court to Order Halt to Violations

Date

April 25, 1989

The Federal Trade Commission has charged National Business Consultants Inc. with making false and misleading claims in the sale of business opportunities for business consulting services. At the FTC's...

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National Business Consultants (timeline item) - April 25, 1989

Date

April 25, 1989

April 1, 1989

Report

Terminal Railroad Revisited: Foreclosure of an Essential Facility or Simple Horizontal Monopoly

Date

April 1, 1989

St. Louis Terminal Railroad (1912) has been cited by a number of authors as a case of vertical foreclosure by competitive rivals. The alleged foreclosure has been used as a basis for the "Essential...

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Terminal Railroad Revisited: Foreclosure of an Essential Facility or Simple Horizontal Monopoly (396.37 KB)

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Economics of Sham Litigation: Theory, Cases, and Policy

Date

April 1, 1989

Report examines court records on public and private Sherman Act "countersuits" entailing allegations of sham litigation, between 1972 and 1985. Using an empirical approach, the report seeks to answer...

File

Copy of Report (4.64 MB)

Advocacy Filings

FTC Staff Comment Before the Department of Treasury, Customs Service Concerning Proposed Regulations on Country-of-Origin Marking of Jewelry

Date

April 1, 1989

Matter Number

V890048

File

FTC Staff Comment Before the Department of Treasury, Customs Service Concerning Proposed Regulations on Country-of-Origin Marking of Jewelry (6.4 MB)

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FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. Rodney T. Berry Concerning West Virginia H.B. 2297 to Prohibit Auto Brokering

Date

April 1, 1989

Matter Number

V890047

File

FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. Rodney T. Berry Concerning West Virginia H.B. 2297 to Prohibit Auto Brokering (3.47 MB)

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FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. Marshall A. Rauch Concerning North Carolina S.B. 378 to Prohibit Distributors of Household Furniture From Using Certain Restraints and to Establish Retailing Standards and Wholesale Prices

Date

April 1, 1989

Matter Number

V890058

File

FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. Marshall A. Rauch Concerning North Carolina S.B. 378 to Prohibit Distributors of Household Furniture From Using Certain Restraints and to Establish Retailing Standards and Wholesale Prices (22.58 MB)

Advocacy Filings

FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. Hugh D. Shine Concerning Texas H.B. 675 to Partially Deregulate the Tow Truck Industry

Date

April 1, 1989

Matter Number

V890049

File

FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. Hugh D. Shine Concerning Texas H.B. 675 to Partially Deregulate the Tow Truck Industry (7.41 MB)

Advocacy Filings

FTC Staff Comment to the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, Transportation Division Concerning the Issuance of Additional Taxicab Medallions in Boston

Date

April 1, 1989

Matter Number

V890038

File

FTC Staff Comment to the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, Transportation Division Concerning the Issuance of Additional Taxicab Medallions in Boston (7.46 MB)

Advocacy Filings

FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. Rodney T. Berry Concerning Proposed Revisions to Chapter 24-A of the West Virginia Code to Partially Deregulate the Tow Truck Industry

Date

April 1, 1989

Matter Number

V880059

File

FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. Rodney T. Berry Concerning Proposed Revisions to Chapter 24-A of the West Virginia Code to Partially Deregulate the Tow Truck Industry (5.17 MB)

Advocacy Filings

FTC Staff Comment Before the Texas Senate Economic Development Committee Concerning S.B. 1269 to Restrict Competition Among Accountants

Date

April 1, 1989

Matter Number

V890044

File

FTC Staff Comment Before the Texas Senate Economic Development Committee Concerning S.B. 1269 to Restrict Competition Among Accountants (8.14 MB)

Advocacy Filings

FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. Elaine Gordon Concerning Florida H.B. 770 to Limit the Methods Auto Rental Companies May Use to Calculate and Advertise Base Rental Charges

Date

April 1, 1989

Matter Number

V890054

File

FTC Staff Comment to the Hon. Elaine Gordon Concerning Florida H.B. 770 to Limit the Methods Auto Rental Companies May Use to Calculate and Advertise Base Rental Charges (4.26 MB)

Advocacy Filings

FTC Staff Comment Before the Postal Commission Concerning Documentation of Statistical Analyses

Date

April 1, 1989

Matter Number

V890055

File

FTC Staff Comment Before the Postal Commission Concerning Documentation of Statistical Analyses (6.95 MB)

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