Press Releases

The Herb Gordon Auto World dealerships in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Huling Bros. dealerships in Seattle, Washington, are the latest automobile advertisers to come under Federal Trade Commission...

The Federal Trade Commission announced today "The Joint Venture Project" to clarify and update antitrust policies regarding joint ventures and other forms of competitor collaborations. The Joint...

An immigration attorney who markets his professional services to immigrants who are interested in obtaining “green cards” through the State Department’s “green card lottery” has been charged by the...

The operators of the nationwide Pizzeria Uno restaurant chain have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that advertising touting a line of thin crust pizzas as "low fat" was false and...

Compliance with the Funeral Rule has dramatically improved among funeral homes within the past year, the Federal Trade Commission staff announced today. Of the 239 funeral homes visited in 1996 as...

Commission action regarding applications for approval : Following a public comment period, the Commission has ruled on an application for approval of a transaction from the following: The Commission...

The Federal Trade Commission has announced changes in the two threshold figures that define when it is unlawful for an individual to serve as an officer or director of two or more competing...

The Federal Trade Commission has negotiated settlement agreements with two companies that sold more than 3,000 living trusts to elderly consumers in 43 states in conjunction with memberships in the...

Marketing Response Group, Inc., a Tampa, Florida-based mailing house, and related defendants named in a January 1996 Federal Trade Commission case for allegedly assisting fraudulent telemarketers have...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following action. Commission action regarding petitions to reopen and modify FTC orders: Following a comment period, the FTC has ruled on a petition...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following actions. Applications for approval of transactions: The FTC has received an application for approval for a transaction from the following...

Federal Trade Commission attorneys have filed in federal district court an agreement the Commission reached with Red Apple Companies, Inc. and its chairman, John Catsimatidis, and two other firms...

Nearly $126 million was spent on advertising and promotion for smokeless tobacco products in 1994 -- an increase of $6.7 million from 1993 -- and more than $127 million was spent in 1995, according to...

Commission action regarding applications for approval: Following public comment periods, the Commission has ruled on the following applications for approval of divestitures: The FTC has approved the...

“Notice” “Choice” “Security” “Access” -- Participants in a public workshop held by the Federal Trade Commission on privacy in the online marketplace stated that these are the four necessary elements...

Every day consumers -- especially the elderly -- face a barrage of claims about health-related products and services. Often, it's very difficult to tell the difference between fact or fiction when it...

FTC Action Challenges "Doctor Recommended" Claim Abbott Laboratories, marketer of Ensure nutritional beverages, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it made false and...

Two Connecticut franchisors, charged by the Federal Trade Commission with making false claims in the course of selling their franchises for property inspection services, each have agreed under a...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following action. Commission action regarding applications for approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has ruled on an application...

Phillips Petroleum Company has agreed to divest approximately 160 miles of its natural gas pipeline system in Oklahoma as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over the firm’s...