The Federal Trade Commission is taking action in federal court against a Florida-based group of defendants it alleges have called hundreds of thousands of consumers nationwide to pitch them expensive...

The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit against fast-food chain Burgerim, accusing the chain and its owner, Oren Loni, of enticing more than 1,500 consumers to purchase franchises using false...

The Federal Trade Commission is sending refunds totaling $396,431 to more than 1,800 consumers nationwide who bought Hepaxa and Hepaxa PD, two fish oil supplements that were marketed as treatments for...

The Federal Trade Commission has approved a petition from Sartorius Stedim Biotech S.A. to acquire the chromatography equipment business of Novasep Process SAS. Sartorius was the FTC-approved...

The Federal Trade Commission testified before a Senate subcommittee today about the aggressive steps the agency is taking to police against pandemic predators who are capitalizing on the COVID-19...

The Federal Trade Commission staff has submitted a comment to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in response to FDA’s request for comment on its proposed rule on establishing over-the-counter...

New York City-based Vision Path, Inc., the online seller of direct-to-consumer Hubble lenses, will pay penalties and redress totaling $3.5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it...

The Federal Trade Commission is extending by 30 days the deadline to submit comments as part of the agency’s inquiry into supply chain disruptions . The deadline was originally January 29, 2022; it is...

A marketing services company and its owner will be banned from the auto industry under an Order issued by the Federal Trade Commission after the Commission found that they illegally misled consumers...

Consumers in 2021 reported losing about $770 million to fraud initiated on social media—about one fourth of all reported fraud losses for the year and an 18-fold increase from 2017, according to the...

The remaining defendants in a deceptive student loan debt relief scheme are permanently banned from providing all student loan debt relief products and services in settlements with the Federal Trade...

Today, the Federal Trade Commission sued to block Lockheed Martin Corporation’s $4.4 billion proposed vertical acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc, the last independent U.S. supplier of...

Online fashion retailer Fashion Nova, LLC will be prohibited from suppressing customer reviews of its products and required to pay $4.2 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the...

The Federal Trade Commission is returning more than $3.7 million to consumers who lost money because of unfair and deceptive loan servicing practices by online lender Avant, LLC. The FTC sued Avant in...

For 2022, the size-of-transaction threshold for reporting proposed mergers and acquisitions under Section 7A of the Clayton Act will adjust from $92 million to $101 million. Also, the 2022 thresholds...

Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order settling charges that the merger of New York-based supermarket operators The Golub Corp., which owns the...

The Federal Trade Commission will mark 2022’s Identity Theft Awareness Week January 31-February 4 with a series of free events focused on trending issues in identity theft, including how to reduce...

The Federal Trade Commission has issued an advisory opinion stating that the Holder Rule does not prevent state law from providing costs or attorneys’ fees against loan holders, as some courts have...

The Federal Trade Commission ordered more than 20 marketers nationwide to immediately stop making baseless claims that their products and supposed therapies can treat or prevent COVID-19. In cease-and...

WASHINGTON – Today, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division launched a joint public inquiry aimed at strengthening enforcement against illegal mergers...