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Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc., based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Alternative Cigarettes, Inc., based in Buffalo, New York, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that ads for...

Auto dealerships in Colorado, New York and Pennsylvania and their individual owners have signed agreements with the Federal Trade Commission to settle charges that they ran deceptive lease...

These and other weight loss claims for "The Enforma System" are touted in television and Internet ads. But, according to a Federal Trade Commission complaint filed in federal court, the company's...

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

Consumers who lost money investing in a pyramid scheme they thought was a legitimate multi-level marketing business, will share in as much as $40 million dollars under the terms of a settlement...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that Eric D. London, most recently Deputy Communications Director in the office of Democratic Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt, has been named Director...

The staff of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureaus of Economics and Consumer Protection have filed a comment with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding its proposed rule governing...

Beginning April 21, commercial Web sites that collect personal information from children under 13 years old without the consent of their parents are breaking federal law. "The Children's Online...

The Federal Trade Commission has issued its first advisory opinion regarding certain provisions of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA"). The advisory responds to two questions posed by...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice filed a motion in Federal Court on April 11 to hold Alpine Industries, its president William J. Converse, its vice president Michael Jackson...

One of the largest office supply operations in Southern California charged with sending unordered merchandise to small businesses around the country and then billing them for it has agreed to settle...

Applications for approval of transactions: The FTC has received an application from the following: Exxon Mobil Corp . The application concerns Exxon Mobil's request to amend the Purchase and Sale...

A federal district court has issued a Temporary Restraining Order against Federal Data Service, Inc. (FDS), a Margate, Florida company, and its principals, Stephen Tate and Spencer Golden, following...

An independent practice association ("IPA") containing most of the general surgeons in the Austin, Texas area, and six competing general surgery practice groups that include nearly all of the IPA...

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted a proposed consent order that would remedy the likely anticompetitive effects of the proposed $27 billion merger of BP Amoco p.l.c. (BP Amoco) and Atlantic...

Presenting Federal Trade Commission testimony today before the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, Chairman Robert Pitofsky provided an overview of the FTC's active role in...

The staff of the Federal Trade Commission's Division of Enforcement and the Western Regional Office today announced that they conducted a "surf" of 28 Internet sites that advertise head lice treatment...

Testifying today at a hearing on the death care industry before the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Eileen Harrington of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection provided an...

At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U. S. District Court Judge has halted the operation of an alleged pyramid scheme and frozen the defendants' assets, pending trial. The FTC alleges...

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted a consent order, subject to final approval, that would resolve the anticompetitive concerns associated with the proposed joint venture between FMC Corp. (FMC)...