Commission Actions

Testifying on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission today before the Subcommittee on Children and Families of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Eileen Harrington of the...

A Canadian company and its principal have agreed to pay $375,000 in consumer redress to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their domain name sales scheme violated federal laws. The...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice today announced times, location, and participants for the May 2, 2002 session in their joint hearings on...

"Spam" e-mail messages claiming that consumers had won a free Sony PlayStation 2 or other prize through a promotion purportedly sponsored by Yahoo, Inc., instead routed consumers to an adult Internet...

An Orlando, Florida-based company doing business as Advanced Consumer Services (ACS) and its principals caught up in the Federal Trade Commission's 2000 "Operation Protection Deception" law...

In a 32-page opinion issued April 22, 2002, Judge Reggie B. Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted the Federal Trade Commission's motion for a preliminary injunction...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced its first complaint against - and consent order with - a pharmaceutical manufacturer for allegedly illegally acquiring an exclusive patent license and...

The Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission today told a Senate committee that the agency is extending its efforts to protect consumers from anticompetitive practices that block the timely entry of...

The Federal Trade Commission today outlined the steps it has taken to assure competitive gasoline pricing in the United States. Testifying today before the House Government Reform Committee's...

The Commission has approved an amended complaint in its case against Capital Choice Consumer Credit, Inc., et al. Through the action, the FTC has added Ecommex Corporation as a defendant in this...

The Federal Trade Commission will hold a media availability on Tuesday, April 23, at 1:00 p.m. EST to announce the first FTC law enforcement action stemming from the allegedly wrongful listing of a...