Commission Actions

Prize promotions and sweepstakes offers represent the largest source of complaints to a federal/state telemarketing fraud database and older consumers often are the targets of such scams, a Federal...

Benckiser Consumer Products, Inc. has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it made false and misleading "cause-related marketing" claims in advertising its "EarthRite" line of...

The Federal Trade Commission has formally proposed to repeal its Leather Belt Rule, because the agency plans to replace the rule and other FTC regulations pertaining to individual leather products...

Petition to reopen or modify an order: The FTC has received a petition from the following entity. The petition will be subject to public comment for 30 days, until April 5. NorAm Energy Corp., of...

As a result of debates in the 1960s and 1980s over core issues of antitrust, there is an incomplete but rough consensus about enforcement priorities, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following actions. Unless otherwise noted, the FTC staff contact is Dan Ducore, 202-326-2526. Commission action regarding a petition to reopen or...

Mrs. Fields Cookies, Inc. has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that advertising and promotional materials touting a cookie line as "low fat" were false and misleading for two of the...

A total of $1.25 million will be available for consumers victimized by a massive sweepstakes scam because of a settlement the Federal Trade Commission reached in a case it filed last year to stop...

Georgetown Publishing House Limited Partnership, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based publishing firm, and its president have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they used deceptive...