Press Releases

The Federal Trade Commission and the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) have entered into a partnership to stamp out telemarketing fraud in the Atlanta area. To help consumers avoid...

A U.S. District Court judge in Miami has ordered SlimAmerica, Inc., and its officers to temporarily halt their business practices, and frozen their assets, after hearing Federal Trade Commission...

Staff of the Federal Trade Commission will not recommend an antitrust challenge to a proposed network of ambulance companies to provide medically-related transportation services on a regional or...

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 FTC has...

The Federal Trade Commission announced today that it had reached an agreement with American Cyanamid settling charges that the company violated antitrust laws by fixing the resale prices of their...

A proposal to create a network of thirteen licensed ambulance and ambulette service providers ("members") to offer scheduled, non-emergency ambulance and ambulette services throughout northeast and...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced a settlement of charges that the proposed acquisition by Tenet Healthcare Corp. of OrNda Healthcorp would threaten competition for hospital care in San...

Consent agreements given final approval: Following a public comment period on each, the Commission has made final consent agreements with the following entities. The Commission action makes the...

Marquette, Inc., a Georgia based company, and two of its officers, have agreed to pay $146,750 in consumer redress as settlement of Federal Trade Commission charges announced as part of "Project...

Hawthorne Communications, Inc., an Iowa advertising agency, will pay a $25,000 civil penalty for violating a 1994 Federal Trade Commission order requiring it to have substantiation for advertising...

Consent agreements given final approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a consent agreement with the following entity. The Commission action makes the consent order...

Nationwide Syndications, Inc., of Barrington, Illinois, and company president Thomas W. Karon, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false and unsubstantiated claims...

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 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...

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...