Press Releases

The Federal Trade Commission today filed a petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking review of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit’s April 22, 2008...

Statement by David Wales, Acting Director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition, on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruling on November 21, 2008, that denies Whole...

Newpark Resources announced today that it has agreed to cancel its proposed $85 million sale of its Newpark Environmental Services business to CCS Corporation. This follows the October 23, 2008...

Following a public comment period, the Commission has approved a final consent order with Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc. settling charges of illegal market allocation. The vote approving the final order...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced it has approved publication of a Federal Register notice seeking public comments on proposed revisions to the Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and...

Academy Collection Service, Inc. and its owner, Keith Dickstein, have agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that Academy and its collectors misled, threatened, and...

With all the sources of health information available - many of them online - it can be tough to tell fact from fiction, or useful products and services from those that don’t work or aren’t safe. To...

The Commission has issued its Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 Performance and Accountability Report (PAR). In accordance with the Reports Consolidation Act of 2000, the PAR combines the agency’s Performance...

The Federal Trade Commission has announced the agenda for the upcoming public roundtable on “Follow-on Biologic Drugs: Framework for Competition and Continued Innovation.” The roundtable will be held...

At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. District Court has issued a temporary restraining order halting the sale of keylogger spyware. According to the FTC’s complaint, the Florida...

The Commission has issued the report, “ 2008 Report on Ethanol Market Concentration.” This is the Commission’s fourth annual report on the state of ethanol production in the United States, as required...

The Commission has informed Linde AG that it may retain its Richmond and City of Industry, California, helium transfills. The FTC’s order in this matter, issued on August 29, 2006, requires Linde to...

The Federal Trade Commission and the State of Nevada have charged 10 related Internet payday lenders and their principals, based mainly in the United Kingdom, with violating federal and state law by...

Under the terms of a federal court order announced by the Federal Trade Commission today, a finance company that the Commission charged with unfairly collecting on equipment leasing contracts and...

The Commission has approved the Report to Congress Under the Do Not Call Improvement Act of 2007 (2007 DNCIA), signed into law on February 15, 2008. The report, which is mandated under the 2007 DNCIA...

– The Commission, with the concurrence of the U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, has released the Thirtieth Annual Report to Congress Regarding the Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification...

A Texas-based mortgage lender has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated federal law by failing to provide reasonable security to protect sensitive customer data. The lender made...

The marketers of dietary supplements that purportedly prevented and treated diabetes have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they engaged in deceptive advertising practices. According to...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the first of a possible series of public hearings to explore the evolving market for intellectual property (IP). The hearings will be held beginning on...

The Federal Trade Commission today denied requests that the Commission extend the time within which public comments can be filed on proposed revisions to Parts 3 and 4 of the agency’s Rules of...