Commission Actions

Beginning tomorrow an employer must get a job applicant's written permission before obtaining a copy of the applicant's credit report. Also, for the first time, creditors and others that furnish...

Many consumers are concerned about the privacy, accuracy and fairness of their credit records. A newly-amended federal law that goes into effect on Sept. 30 will give consumers major new rights that...

Commission action regarding applications for approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has ruled on an application for approval of a transaction from the following: The FTC has...

The Federal Trade Commission today ended its administrative challenge to a hospital merger in Grand Rapids, Michigan, after concluding that further litigation in the case is not in the public interest...

WHAT: The Federal Trade Commission will host a Press Conference to announce a major fraud fighting and consumer education initiative, "Project Mailbox," a public/private partnership to tackle mass...

Majors Medical Supply, Inc., of Boca Raton, Florida, and its two corporate officers have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false claims about the income franchisees...

A federal district court in Atlanta has temporarily halted what the Federal Trade Commission has alleged to be a deceptive telemarketing scheme offering credit card protection services to consumers...

Applications for approval of transactions: The FTC has shortened the comment period from 30 days to 15 days on an application for approval of a transaction from the following. The shortened public...

Against the backdrop of a "remarkable" merger wave in the United States, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky today offered a group of business executives his analysis of two recent high...

At the beginning of August, the Federal Trade Commission was asked by Representatives Martin Meehan, Henry Waxman and James Hansen, on behalf of the Congressional Task Force on Tobacco and Health, to...