Commission Actions

A group of U.S. and Canadian telemarketers will pay $415,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission charges they were selling nonexistent credit cards to U.S. consumers, the agency announced today. The...

Under a Trilateral Cooperation Charter agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada signed in 2003, six agencies (two from each country) today announced that they have taken nearly 730...

LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service are hosting a one-day seminar for law...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division will host a one-day joint workshop entitled “Competition Policy and the Real Estate Industry” on Tuesday, October...

Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corporation (ENH), located in Evanston, Illinois, must sell Highland Park Hospital (Highland Park) within 180 days, under the terms of an initial decision and order...

The Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a joint letter today urging the Michigan Senate Committee on Economic Development, Small Business, and Regulatory Reform to...

A top distributor in a multilevel-marketing program, who deceptively led prospective recruits to believe they would be applying for marketing jobs and that they would make a substantial income, has...

Interagency Task Force on Competition in Electric Energy Markets Requests Public Comments Concerning Study Mandated in Energy Policy Act An interagency task force requests comments from the public...

A U.S. District Court judge has halted the deceptive ads of a Web operation that claimed that membership in MP3DownloadCity.com would allow users of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing programs to...

At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court issued a temporary restraining order against marketers of oral sprays that supposedly contain human growth hormone (HGH) to stop them...

A company that lured low income consumers with no insurance into spending $199 with false claims that they would receive free prescription medication has been barred from making the deceptive claims...