Commission Actions

The Federal Trade Commission announced today that it will hold a second round of hearings on its Joint Venture Project during November 1997. The hearings, as well as public comments, will allow the...

Stillwater Vending Limited, Global Locating Services, Inc., and their principals, Joel and Jeffrey Salvatore, are the latest targets of the Federal Trade Commission’s crackdown on bogus business...

Consumers will receive better information about the tar and nicotine yields of their cigarettes if proposed changes to the Federal Trade Commission's cigarette test method are adopted. The FTC test...

National Invention Services, Inc., of Cranford, New Jersey, and its president and CEO, John F. Lee, are required by court order to disclose that none of the nearly 1,000 clients who signed up for...

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

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky has named Debra A. Valentine to be the FTC’s first female General Counsel, the Commission’s chief legal officer and adviser. Valentine was most...

Applications for Approval of Transactions: The FTC has shortened the comment period to 15 days on the application to approve a transaction from the following entity. The Commission is seeking comments...

A Virginia telemarketer, S.J.A. Society, Inc., and two principals will be ordered to pay $88,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they used fraud and deception in their magazine...