For Release: February 28, 2001 FTC Requests Comments on Retail Electricity Competition Plans
The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it is seeking information regarding the results to date of different regulatory approaches to the introduction of competition into the retail sale of electricity.
For Your Information: February 27, 2001 Announced Actions for February 27, 2001
Approved Consent Decree in Philip Morris Co. Inc. and Nabisco Holdings Corp.
February 26, 2001
For Release: February 26, 2001 FTC Appoints Monitor Trustee in AOL/Time Warner Matter
The Federal Trade Commission today announced it has appointed Dale Hatfield, a telecommunications consultant from Boulder, Colorado, as the monitor trustee in the America Online ("AOL")/Time Warner merger.
For Your Information: February 23, 2001 Announced Actions for February 23, 2001
Approval of Trustee Agreement in Entergy Corporation, et al.; publication of FTC proposed study of U.S. generic drug competition; Federal Register notice regarding FTC Amplifier Rule review; release of annual report Truth in Lending, Consumer Leasing, Equal Credit Opportunity and Electronic Fund Transfer Acts.
For Release: February 16, 2001 Florida Defendants in FTC's "Project Biz-illion$" Sweep to Pay Consumer Redress to Settle Charges
Vending Communications, Inc. (VCI), Interactive Communication Services, Inc. (ICS), and their president, Alberto Susi, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they misrepresented the earnings that prospective purchasers of their business opportunities could realize.
For Your Information: February 16, 2001 Announced Actions for February 16, 2001
Approved appointment of monitor trustee in Dow Chemical Company and Union Carbide Corporation; Final consent order in Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.; Final consent order in Black & Deckers Corporation and Kwikset Corporation.
February 15, 2001
For Release: February 15, 2001 FTC Dismisses Complaint Against California Dental Association
The Federal Trade Commission has announced its decision not to seek further review in the Supreme Court of its case against the California Dental Association ("CDA"), and has returned the matter to adjudication and dismissed the complaint
For Release: February 15, 2001 FTC Halts Domain Name Scam Thousands of Consumers Pay Up To Fend Off Fictional Poachers
For Release: February 12, 2001 Internet "Pagejacker" Settles FTC Charges
Australian defendant, Gregory Lasrado, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that a scheme that hijacked unwitting Internet surfers violated the FTC Act. Lasrado participated in a scam that copied existing Web sites and inserted coded instructions in the copycat sites which automatically redirected consumers to adult sites operated by the defendants.
February 9, 2001
For Your Information: February 9, 2001 Announced Actions for February 9, 2001
Application for proposed divestiture in El Paso Energy Corporation/The Coastal Corporation; Commission statement before the Washington State House of Representatives; Record reopened and complaint dismissed in Summit Technology Incorporated and VISX, Incorporated.
For Release: February 7, 2001 Global Network Defendants to Post $500,000 Performance Bond Before Engaging in Future Telemarketing Activities As Part of FTC Settlement
In July 2000, the Federal Trade Commission filed charges against Global Network Enterprises, Inc. and Republic Enterprises, Inc., based in Costa Mesa, California, and individual defendants Cecilia M. Castillo and Ian Anthony Suite, as part of "Project Prize Fighter"-- a joint law enforcement effort that targeted companies involved in the deceptive telemarketing of prize promotions.
For Release: February 7, 2001 Cross-Border Lottery Scam Halted; Payment Processor Settles
A cross-border lottery scam that targeted elderly U.S. consumers has been barred from selling tickets in the United States and from violating federal laws that bar deceptive sales practices.
For Your Information: February 2, 2001 Announced Actions for February 2, 2001
Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a consent order regarding the following: El Paso Energy Corporation and PG&E Corporation. The Commission vote to finalize the consent agreement was 5-0. (FTC File No. 001-0121; staff contact is William R. Vigdor, 202-326-3177; see press release dated December 21, 2000.)
February 1, 2001
For Release: February 1, 2001 First "Safe Harbor" Approved for Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
The Federal Trade Commission today announced that the Children's Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CARU), the children's arm of the advertising industry's self-regulatory program established in 1974, has been approved as the first "safe harbor" program under the terms of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Safe harbor programs are industry self-regulatory guidelines that, if adhered to, are deemed to comply with the Act. This is the first COPPA safe harbor application approved by the Commission.
