Operators who allegedly sent bogus bills to consumers or charged their credit card accounts, claiming that the consumers owed money for audiotext or Internet services they did not order or authorize...

A bill pending before the Alaska legislature that seeks to authorize competing physicians to engage in collective bargaining with health plans over fees and other terms would significantly increase...

A participant in a pyramid scheme that posed as a multi-level marketing business has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the scheme violated federal law. The settlement bars Robert...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice today announced that their joint hearings on "Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge...

The Commission has approved publication of a Federal Register notice announcing changes in the two threshold figures that define when it is unlawful for an individual to serve as an officer or...

The Commission has approved publication of a Federal Register notice announcing that the Commission has allowed Australian law enforcement authorities access to the FTC's Consumer Sentinel database...

Identity theft headed the top 10 consumer fraud complaints of 2001, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Identity theft accounted for 42 percent of the 204,000 complaints entered into the FTC's...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced a proposal to create a centralized national "Do Not Call" registry. The registry would enable consumers to eliminate most telemarketing calls simply by...

The FTC has denied a petition by the Superior Court Trial Lawyers' Association seeking a modification or interpretation of a Commission order to limit its scope regarding price fixing. In its petition...

Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges regarding the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive personal information collected from consumers through its Prozac...

Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection Director J. Howard Beales III will be available TODAY, January 18, 2002 at 11:00 a.m . to discuss an FTC settlement with a corporation for...

Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection Director J. Howard Beales III will be available TUESDAY, January 22, 2002 at 11:00 a.m. to discuss proposed amendments to the Telemarketing Sales...

Timothy J. Muris, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Charles A. James, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, will hold a press conference...

Speaking today before the Joint U.S./E.U. Conference "Guidelines for Merger Remedies: Prospects and Principles" in Paris, France, Federal Trade Commissioner Thomas B. Leary presented a focus on the...

Life is a little sweeter today for hundreds of consumers nationwide who bought into an alleged candy vending machine business opportunity scheme run out of the New York area between 1998 and 2000. In...

The Federal Trade Commission recently issued a "Facts for Business" guide to help landlords comply with the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). " Using Consumer Reports: What Landlords Need to...

The Federal Trade Commission has authorized its staff to seek a preliminary injunction to block the proposed $170 million acquisition of Leiner Davis Gelatin Corporation and Goodman Fielder USA, Inc...

The Federal Trade Commission today filed its complaint for a preliminary injunction to block Libbey, Inc.'s (Libbey) proposed $332 million acquisition of Anchor Hocking (Anchor), a wholly-owned...

A U.S. District Court judge has ordered the operators of an allegedly illegal pyramid scheme to return millions of dollars being held in offshore accounts to preserve them for consumer redress...

On January 3, 2002, the U.S. Solicitor General filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the United States and the Commission in the matter of Statoil ASA v. HeereMac V.O.F. in the Supreme Court of...