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20201234: Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited; LegalApp Holdings, Inc.
20201235: Authentic Brands Group LLC; LBD Parent Holdings, LLC
First Choice Horizon LLC
Announced in June 2019 as part of a crackdown on illegal robocalls against operations around the country responsible for more than one billion calls, the FTC’s complaint against six corporate and three individual defendants jointly doing business as Second Choice Horizon and CSG Solutions, alleges Raymond Gonzalez, Carlos S. Guerrero, and Joshua Hernandez ran a maze of interrelated operations that used illegal robocalls to contact financially distressed consumers with offers of bogus credit card interest rate reduction services. The FTC contends many of the consumers targeted were seniors. In July 2020, the FTC announced the defendants had settled the Commission’s complaint, and are banned from telemarketing and selling debt relief services.
Indivior Inc.
Reckitt Benckiser Group plc has agreed to pay $50 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated the antitrust laws through a deceptive scheme to thwart lower-priced generic competition to its branded drug Suboxone. According to the complaint, before the generic versions of Suboxone tablets became available, Reckitt and its former subsidiary Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals, now known as Indivior, Inc., developed a dissolvable oral film version of Suboxone and worked to shift prescriptions to this patent-protected film. Worried that doctors and patients would not want to switch to Suboxone Film, Reckitt allegedly employed a “product hopping” scheme where the company misrepresented that the film version of Suboxone was safer than Suboxone tablets because children are less likely to be accidentally exposed to the film product. Invidior has agreed to pay an additional $10 million to settle FTC charges.
The Mane Choice Hair Solution, LLC
The Mane Choice Hair Solution, LLC
16 CFR Part 423: Care Labeling Rule: Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
Statement of Commissioner Rohit Chopra on the 10th Anniversary of the Enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Prepared Statement by the Federal Trade Commission: Consumer Protection Issues Arising from the Coronavirus Pandemic
Elanco Animal Health and Bayer Animal Health; Analysis of Agreement Containing Consent Orders To Aid Public Comment
2007004 Informal Interpretation
20201192: Vista Equity Partners Fund V, L.P.; 4C Insights, Inc.
20201207: Genstar Capital Partners IX, L.P.; Sentinel Capital Partners V, L.P.
Williams-Sonoma, Inc., In the Matter of
Home products and kitchen wares company Williams-Sonoma, Inc. has agreed to stop making false, misleading, or unsubstantiated claims that all of its Goldtouch Bakeware products, its Rejuvenation-branded products, and Pottery Barn Teen and Pottery Barn Kids-branded upholstered furniture products are all or virtually all made in the United States. On July 16, 2020, the Commission announced the final consent order in this matter.
Corporate Compliance Services
The operators of a scheme that targeted new businesses across the country with bogus threats of government fines will pay $1.2 million and be banned from sending unsolicited direct mail under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and the State of Florida.