Every year the FTC brings hundreds of cases against individuals and companies for violating consumer protection and competition laws that the agency enforces. These cases can involve fraud, scams, identity theft, false advertising, privacy violations, anti-competitive behavior and more. The Legal Library has detailed information about cases we have brought in federal court or through our internal administrative process, called an adjudicative proceeding.
Interstate Resource Corp.; James Ludlow; and John O'Brien
Cooper, Barry; d/b/a Barry Cooper Properties
Tri-State Advertising Unlimited, Inc.
T.E.M.M. Marketing, Inc., et al.
Statement of Chairman Robert Pitofsky, Commissioner Sheila Anthony, and Commissioner Mozelle Thompson in T.E.M.M. Marketing, Inc
Statement of Commissioner Orson Swindle Concurring in Part and Dissenting in Part in T.E.M.M. Marketing, Inc
Statement of Commissioner Orson Swindle Concurring in Part and Dissenting in Part TriState Advertising Unlimited, Inc
Statement of Chairman Robert Pitofsky, Commissioner Sheila Anthony, and Commissioner Mozelle Thompson in To Tri-State Advertising Unlimited, Inc
American College for Advancement in Medicine
Design Zone, Inc.
Statement of Commissioner Swindle, Concurring in Part and Dissenting in Part, In the Matter of Ciba-Geigy Corporation, and Ciba-Medication, Inc.
OneSource Worldwide Network, Inc., et al.
Magnetic Theraputic Technologies, Inc. (Operation Cure All)
Sneed, Melinda R. and Sneed, John L. d/b/a Arthritis Pain Care Center
Zeneca Group PL
Consent order, resolving antitrust concerns relating to Zeneca's merger with Astra AB requires the divestiture of all assets relating to levobupivacaine, a long-acting local anesthetic. The assets were sold to Chiroscience Group plc, the developer of levobupivacaine.
Stanley Works
CMS Energy Corporation
Consent order requires Consumer Energy, a CMS subsidiary, to "loan" natural gas from its own system to shippers on third-party pipelines if the interconnection capacity with competing pipelines falls below historical levels settling charges that its acquisition of two natural gas pipelines, Panhandle Eastern Pipeline and Trunkline Pipeline, from Duke Energy Company, could reduce competition and increase consumer prices for natural gas and electricity in 54 counties in Michigan.
Medtronic, Inc.
Medtronic agreed to divest Avecor Cardiovascular, Inc.'s non-occlusive arterial pump assets to settle antitrust concerns that the acquisition would lessen competition for the research, development, manufacture and sale of the pumps in the United States. The order requires Medtronic to provide assistance to the buyer of the Avecor Pump assets to enable the buyer to obtain FDA approval to manufacture and market the Avecor pumps an reservoirs.