Commission Actions

The Federal Trade Commission has filed charges against PAL Financial Services, Inc., a telemarketing boilerroom the agency says took in more than $315,000 of the $2.36 million raised in an allegedly...

The Federal Trade Commission has revised a telemarketing rule it proposed in February to focus more narrowly on deceptive and abusive telemarketing practices, but also to give law enforcement...

A bill in the Nevada legislature that would restrict automobile brokering -- arranging the sale or lease of new cars and trucks to consumers for a fee -- could reduce competition and increase prices...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky has announced the formation of a special task force to review agency rules and policies governing litigation in administrative cases. The task force...

The Federal Trade Commission has extended until Aug. 7, 1995 the date through which it will accept comments from the public on the usefulness and effectiveness of its Light Bulb Rule. The rule...

Federal district courts in Ohio and South Carolina have temporarily halted allegedly fraudulent practices used by three telemarketing schemes to sell medical equipment to consumers nationwide...

Thirteen of 24 defendants charged by the Federal Trade Commission last year with using a fraudulent prize-promotion pitch to induce consumers, many of them elderly, to donate money to two purported...

A federal district court judge has upheld Federal Trade Commission charges against two individuals and their company for their roles in a fraudulent telefunding scheme. The FTC had alleged in federal...

The Federal Trade Commission has tentatively proposed to repeal a rule requiring disclosures in advertising and on packaging for certain binoculars that are not fully prismatic. The FTC, as part of...

The Federal Trade Commission has proposed to repeal a rule requiring safety warnings on quick freeze aerosol spray products used for frosting cocktail glasses because the principal ingredient has been...

The Federal Trade Commission has given final approval to a consent agreement with Felson Builders, Inc., Diamond Crossing Associates, L.P., Elmhurst Partners, L.P., and Joseph Felson, settling charges...

The Federal Trade Commission has tentatively proposed to repeal a rule requiring warnings about handling fiberglass curtains and draperies because the products are no longer in general use. The FTC is...

The Federal Trade Commission has tentatively proposed to repeal three rules governing how the dimensions of sleeping bags, tablecloths and extension ladders are described to consumers in advertising...

I.B. Diffusion, L.P., a Chicago-based importer and dis- tributor of women's clothing and accessories, has agreed to pay a $100,000 civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it...