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January 29, 2001

Press Release

Pyramid Promoters Settle FTC Charges

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January 29, 2001

Promoters of a pyramid scheme that disguised itself as a legitimate multi-level marketing business have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the scheme violated federal law. The...

Press Release

Telemarketer Offering Credit Cards That Never Arrived Agrees to Settle FTC Charges;

Date

January 29, 2001

Darryl Smith, the principal of American Consumer Membership Services, Inc. (ACMS), has agreed to a permanent ban from engaging in any telemarketing, or in the advertising, promotion, marketing, or...

Case Timeline Item

Natural Organics, Inc., and Gerald A. Kessler, individually and as an officer of the corporation, In the Matter of (timeline item) - January 29, 2001

Date

January 29, 2001

Complaint Counsel's Motion to Compel Respondents to Supplement Their Initial Disclosures (2.41 MB)

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El Paso Corporation and The Coastal Corporation (timeline item) - January 29, 2001

Date

January 29, 2001

Agreement Containing Consent Orders (11.08 KB)

Decision and Order (55.44 KB)

Order To Maintain Assets (20.79 KB)

Complaint (48.94 KB)

Analysis of the Complaint and Proposed Consent Order To Aid Public Comment (20.49 KB)

Commission Letter Appointing Monitor Trustee and Approving Trust Agreement (12.36 KB)

Case Timeline Item

El Paso Energy Corporation and The Coastal Corporation (timeline item) - January 29, 2001

Date

January 29, 2001

Agreement Containing Consent Orders (11.08 KB)

Decision and Order (55.44 KB)

Complaint (48.94 KB)

Order to Maintain Asets (32.43 KB)

Analysis of Complaint and Proposed Consent Order to Aid Public Comment (20.49 KB)

Letter (12.36 KB)

Case Timeline Item

Polk, John T., et al. (timeline item) - January 29, 2001

Date

January 29, 2001

Stipulated Final Judgment and Order for Permanent Injunction as to Defendant Patrick Farah (1.29 MB)

Stipulated Final Judgment and Order for Permanent Injunction as to Defendant John T. Polk and Afew, Inc. (911.64 KB)

Stipulated Final Judgment and Order for Permanent Injunction as to Defendant Peter Hirsch (1.46 MB)

Advisory Opinions

American Textile Co.

Date

January 29, 2001

Letter from Steve Ecklund, Federal Trade Investigator, in response to request of confirmation regarding the proper marking of certain pillow and matress covers (280.79 KB)

January 26, 2001

Press Release

Federal Trade Commission and Department of Defense Announce Soldier Sentinel

Date

January 26, 2001

The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Defense will create the first online system designed specifically to identify and collect...

Case Timeline Item

Natural Organics, Inc., and Gerald A. Kessler, individually and as an officer of the corporation, In the Matter of (timeline item) - January 26, 2001

Date

January 26, 2001

Respondent's Motion for Issuance of Subpoena Ad Testificandum for the Appearance for Deposition of David T. Read, Supervisory Regulatory Counsel for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2.22 MB)

January 25, 2001

Press Release

Major Changes to Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification Requirements to Take Effect February 1, 2001

Date

January 25, 2001

On February 1, 2001, significant changes will take effect regarding the filing requirements of the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. 18a), which requires certain...

Press Release

Investment Software Vendors Settle FTC Charges

Date

January 25, 2001

An investment trading software company that used theoretical past earnings charts to sell a high-priced software program has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its claims were...

Press Release

Sharp Electronics to Provide Redress for Allegedly Misleading Consumers about its Handheld Personal Computers

Date

January 25, 2001

Under the terms of a proposed consent agreement reached with the Federal Trade Commission and announced today, Sharp Electronics Corp. ("Sharp"), one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers...

Case Timeline Item

Sharp Electronics Corp (timeline item) - January 25, 2001

Date

January 25, 2001

Agreement Containing Consent Order (935.25 KB)

Complaint (Including Exhibits A-H) (475.87 KB)

Analysis of Proposed Consent Order to Aid Public Comment (109.88 KB)

Case Timeline Item

Indigo Investment Systems, Inc. (timeline item) - January 25, 2001

Date

January 25, 2001

Agreement Containing Consent Order (658.59 KB)

Complaint (1.28 MB)

Analysis of Proposed Consent Order to Aid Public Comment (215.86 KB)

January 23, 2001

Federal Register Notice

Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period Under the Premerger Notification Rules

Date

January 23, 2001

Federal Register Notice

Revised Jurisdictional Thresholds for Section 8 of the Clayton Act

Date

January 23, 2001

Federal Register Notice

Public Roundtable on Dispute Resolution for Online Business-to-Consumer Contracts

Date

January 23, 2001

January 19, 2001

Press Release

Announced Actions for January 19, 2001

Date

January 19, 2001

Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a consent agreement with the following: R.S. of Houston Workshop, Ronald J. Schoemmell and Valdimar Thorkelsson. The Commission vote to...

Case Timeline Item

R.S. of Houston Workshop, Ronald J. Schoemmell, and Valdimar Thorkelsson (timeline item) - January 19, 2001

Date

January 19, 2001

Complaint (9.09 KB)

Exhibit A (263.32 KB)

Decision and Order (18.93 KB)

Case Timeline Item

WFS Enterprises, Inc. d/b/a The Cash Nursery, and Rabb Sabin and Arthur Smith (timeline item) - January 19, 2001

Date

January 19, 2001

Complaint (13.44 KB)

Exhibit A (891.49 KB)

Decision and Order (19.21 KB)

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