In an administrative opinion announced today, the Federal Trade Commission ruled that Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I) illegally acquired certain Pitt-Des Moines, Inc. (PDM) assets. CB&I completed...

In the aftermath of the tsunami, the Federal Trade Commission is urging consumers to be cautious of potential charity scams. Fraudsters may take advantage of the tragedy by creating bogus fundraising...

A company that heavily advertised an herbal dietary supplement called “Sagee” to the Chinese-language and Vietnamese-language communities has settled Federal Trade Commission charges of making false...

Commission approval of proposed divestiture: The FTC has granted approval for Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (Enterprise) and Dan L. Duncan to divest the Enterprise Propane Storage Interest in...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras announced today that William E. Kovacic, FTC General Counsel, will leave the Commission December 31 to return to academic life as the E. K...

Commission approval of petition to reopen and modify final order: The Commission has approved a petition from Liberty Media Corporation (Liberty) requesting that the FTC reopen and modify the final...

“Check overpayment” scams target consumers selling cars or other valuable items through classified ads or online auction sites. Unsuspecting sellers get stuck with a big loss when scammers pass off...

In February and March 2005, the Federal Trade Commission, the National Academies’ Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), and the American Intellectual Property Law Association...

Petition to reopen and modify final order: The Commission has received a petition from Aventis S.A. (Aventis), the successor company to Hoechst AG and Rhone-Poulenc S.A. (RP) (the respondents), to...

The Federal Trade Commission will host a public conference in Washington, DC, on January 14, 2005, to examine two recent studies focusing on the price effects of mergers and concentration in the...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that a Florida federal district court has ordered Jack L. Schrold, a defendant under order in a civil case filed by the Department of Justice on behalf of...

Beginning January 1, 2005, the Federal Trade Commission’s Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) will require telemarketers to access the National Do Not Call Registry and purge newly-registered numbers from...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it will conditionally allow Genzyme Corporation’s (Genzyme) proposed $1 billion acquisition of ILEX Oncology, Inc. (Ilex), provided the companies...

For the second time in a month, the Federal Trade Commission has put an end to a fraudulent and misleading pitch for work-at-home envelope stuffing business opportunities. Both actions stemmed from...

Commission approval of Federal Register notice: The Commission has approved the publication of a Federal Register notice regarding the ceiling on allowable charges for certain disclosures under the...

The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Antitrust Division today released a joint letter urging the Massachusetts Bar Association to narrow substantially or reject a...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras has appointed John H. Seesel to fill the new position of Associate General Counsel for Energy within the Commission's Office of the General...

The Federal Trade Commission has continued its attack on bogus weight-loss claims by suing a diet patch manufacturer and a retailer that marketed the patch directly to Spanish-speaking consumers. In...

Commission approval of Federal Register notice: The Commission has approved the publication of a Federal Register notice regarding the adjustment for inflation of certain FTC civil penalty amounts. As...

The Federal Trade Commission will host a two-day workshop on consumer protection and competition issues related to peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing on Wednesday, December 15, and Thursday, December 16...