Commission Actions

Federal Trade Commission staff has advised the Northwestern Nevada Orthopaedic Surgery Alliance, an independent physician association comprised of eight competing orthopedists in Washoe County, Nevada...

WestPoint Stevens, Inc., the successor to West Point- Pepperell, Inc., has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to reopen and vacate a 1988 consent order stemming from West Point Pepperells's...

The Federal Trade Commission has terminated a 1954 consent order against Harley-Davidson Motor Company. The order pro- hibited Harley-Davidson from selling its products on the condition that the...

Summit Communications Group, Inc. and seven Wometco Cable TV companies operating in Georgia (collectively referred to below as Wometco) have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky has announced the appointment of Teresa Moran Schwartz to serve as Deputy Director of the Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, effective...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it will conduct a comprehensive review of consumers' perceptions of "made in USA" advertising claims. The Commission will hold a public workshop and...

The Federal Trade Commission announced today that it has dismissed a complaint against Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers, Florida, because any potential harm to consumers as alleged in the complaint...

The Federal Trade Commission has issued an order staying the administrative proceeding raising allegations that New Balance Athletic Shoes, Inc. made deceptive "made in USA" claims for its footwear...

Valspar Corporation has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to set aside a provision in an order requiring the company, until 2003, to obtain the FTC's approval prior to acquiring assets used in...

McWhorter Technologies, Inc., a specialty chemical company based in Carpentersville, Illinois, has asked the Federal Trade Commission to approve its proposed acquisition of RUCO Polymer Corporation...

Mannesmann, A.G., a German firm, has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to delete a provision in a 1992 order requiring the company, until 2002, to obtain the FTC's approval before acquiring an...

In the first cases to emerge from a nationwide Federal Trade Commission crackdown on funeral homes that fail to give consumers the price lists and other information they're entitled to, the FTC and...