Commission Actions

For the second time in a month, the Federal Trade Commission has put an end to a fraudulent and misleading pitch for work-at-home envelope stuffing business opportunities. Both actions stemmed from...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it will conditionally allow Genzyme Corporation’s (Genzyme) proposed $1 billion acquisition of ILEX Oncology, Inc. (Ilex), provided the companies...

Beginning January 1, 2005, the Federal Trade Commission’s Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) will require telemarketers to access the National Do Not Call Registry and purge newly-registered numbers from...

Commission approval of Federal Register notice: The Commission has approved the publication of a Federal Register notice regarding the ceiling on allowable charges for certain disclosures under the...

The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Antitrust Division today released a joint letter urging the Massachusetts Bar Association to narrow substantially or reject a...

The Federal Trade Commission has continued its attack on bogus weight-loss claims by suing a diet patch manufacturer and a retailer that marketed the patch directly to Spanish-speaking consumers. In...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras has appointed John H. Seesel to fill the new position of Associate General Counsel for Energy within the Commission's Office of the General...