What: News Conference: The U.S. Postal Inspection Service with the Federal Trade Commission is announcing a national fraud prevention campaign to help senior citizens, who are often targets of...

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted for public comment a proposed order with Libbey Inc. and Newell Rubbermaid Inc. (collectively, the respondents) to resolve alleged anticompetitive effects in...

American Career Services, Inc. (ACS), a Mobile, Alabama-based corporation, and Douglas Holcomb, its president, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false and deceptive...

System Health Providers (SHP) and its parent corporation, Genesis Physicians Group, Inc. (GPG), most of whose approximately 1,250 members are physicians practicing in the eastern part of the Dallas...

The Commission has approved the issuance of a final consent order in the matter concerning Biovail Corporation and Elan Corporation, plc, and authorized a response letter to be sent to the one...

Eight Denver, Colorado, area physician practice groups specializing in obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYNs), along with their non-physician agent and his corporation, have agreed to settle Federal...

– The Commission has authorized the staff to file an amicus brief in the action currently pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama captioned Carter v. ICR Services Inc....

In comments provided last week at the request of New York Governor George Pataki, staff of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition and Office of Policy Planning noted that two pieces of...

MSC.Software Corporation has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that its 1999 acquisitions of Universal Analytics, Inc. (UAI) and Computerized Structural Analysis & Research Corp....

The Commission has approved the final accounting by the divestiture trustee in the matter concerning the merger of Chevron Corporation and Texaco Inc. The order required ChevronTexaco, before...

Microsoft Corporation has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges regarding the privacy and security of personal information collected from consumers through its "Passport" web services. As...

FTC Chairman Timothy J. Muris will announce the settlement terms of a Commission enforcement action at a press conference on THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2002 at 11:00 a.m. in Room 432 of the FTC. What: Press...

The Federal Trade Commission has released an agenda for the workshop on competition law and policy for health care financing and delivery, which will be held on September 9-10, 2002, in Washington, D...

A scheme that used deceptive "rebate" checks to dupe consumers into unwittingly signing up for Internet service violates a federal law that bars unfair and deceptive practices according to a federal...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has settled two cases - one against Philips Electronics North America Corporation (Philips) and the other against TimWofford (Wofford), president...

The Commission has received an application for approval of a proposed divestiture concerning its April 15, 2002, consent agreement with Biovail Corporation (Biovail). Under the terms of the proposed...

American Savings Discount Club (ASDC) and two individual defendants will establish a redress fund of nearly $3 million, will be subject to a lifetime ban on credit-related telemarketing, and will face...

A for-profit company operating out of Grand Prairie, Texas, and its owners, have agreed to settle federal charges that they defrauded consumers by posing as a reference agency that provided non-biased...

The United States District Court for the Central District of California has ordered Medicor LLC, Andrew Rubin, and Matthew Rubin to pay more than $16.5 million in redress for consumers who were...

The Federal Trade Commission, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, have joined 10 state...