Commission Actions

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky today told the House Judiciary Committee that a proposed antitrust exemption to allow physicians and other health care professionals to engage in...

Albertson's, Inc. and American Stores Company have agreed to sell 144 supermarkets and five supermarket sites in order to resolve Federal Trade Commission charges that Albertston's proposed...

The Federal Trade Commission will announce "Operation Cure.All," a comprehensive law enforcement and consumer education campaign to combat deceptive health claims on the Internet at a press conference...

In a crackdown on operations that targeted hundreds of thousands of small businesses, "cramming" charges onto their telephone bills for services that were supposed to be free, the Federal Trade...

What: Press conference to announce law enforcement initiative and public/private partnership to attack scams that target small businesses with the lure of "free" Internet services -- then cram...

In a deal that would provide more than $39 million in redress for U.S. consumers, American TelNet (ATN), one of the largest providers of "audiotext" services -- audio entertainment services offered...