Commission Actions

A Federal district court has temporarily halted the deceptive sales practices and frozen the assets of a Long Island company, Falcon Crest Communications, its principals and two salesmen, for selling...

The Federal Trade Commission has approved Shell Oil Company's plan to divest its polypropylene business to Union Carbide Corporation. The deal involves the transfer to Union Carbide of all assets...

The Federal Trade Commission has given final approval to a consent agreement with the Santa Clara County Motor Car Dealers Association. The final order settles charges that the Association...

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a special brochure to advise terminally ill people who are considering selling their life insurance policies in order to get funds to pay their bills...

The Federal Trade Commission has granted a petition from General Motors Corporation (GM) to reopen and modify the portion of a 1979 consent order that prohibits GM from placing the name of a car...

The Federal Trade Commission has extended until Jan. 26, 1996, the period for accepting written comments in connection with the hearings it held this fall on antitrust and consumer protection issues...

The Federal Trade Commission has approved the application of Thrifty PayLess, Inc. (formerly TCH Corporation) and Green Equity Investors, L.P. to divest the pharmacy business at Thrifty drug stores in...

A.H. Peters Funeral Home of Grosse Pointe, Inc., a Michigan- based funeral home operator, and its officers, have agreed to pay a $60,000 civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that...

In continuing to streamline its oversight of industry activities, the FTC today announced that it has eliminated six outdated trade regulation rules. With this action, the Commission has rescinded a...

Sherri L. Pollock, the remaining defendant named in a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit, has agreed to post a $250,000 surety bond to protect customers before engaging in telemarketing activities in...

The Federal Trade Commission is saying hello to 1996 by waving goodbye to thousands of administrative orders that are at least 20 years old. The agency says that effective January 2, 1996, existing...

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to divest a business that develops, among other products, the cranial shunts used in the treatment of hydrocephalus -- a potentially fatal condition affecting infants and...