Press Releases 2002

On November 13, the Federal Trade Commission and 12 federal, state, and local law enforcement and consumer protection agencies announced a four-part initiative to fight deceptive spam and Internet...

In a speech today in New York City to the Milton Handler Antitrust Review, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy J. Muris discussed his philosophy about the appropriate content of the FTC's...

A U.S. district court in New York on October 25, 2002 cited Morehead McKim Gallaher Funeral Directors, Inc., and its director, Michael Bannon, with civil contempt for failing to comply with its June...

The Federal Trade Commission charged a South Carolina resident using various company names with deceptively marketing his purported envelope stuffing employment opportunities to consumers over the...

A Houston-based defendant that defrauded thousands of consumers nationwide through an advance-fee loan scheme has settled charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC announced today a...

A federal district court has temporarily halted the business practices of a Toronto-based company charged by the Federal Trade Commission with promising consumers a major credit card, and charging an...

The Federal Trade Commission filed suit today against the marketers of the widely advertised product, Body Solutions Evening Weight Loss Formula (Evening Formula). The FTC charged Mark Nutritionals...

Canadian telemarketers whose companies targeted elderly U.S. citizens in a lottery scam have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the schemes violated federal laws. The settlement...

Seminar promoter Wade Cook has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that he and his companies violated the terms of a federal district court order barring unsubstantiated earnings claims...

Former Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky has been named this year's recipient of the Miles W. Kirkpatrick Award. Current FTC Chairman Timothy J. Muris called Pitofsky "one of the...

What: Press Availability Where: Federal Trade Commission Room 481 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. The room will open at 1:00 to allow for camera set-up. Reporters unable to attend can...

The Commission has approved a petition from Aventis S.A. (Aventis), the successor company to Hoechst AG and Rhone-Poulenc S.A. (RP) (the respondents), to reopen and modify a final consent order...

Operators that allegedly used deceptive spam messages and appeals to patriotism to sell Web addresses that don't work, including ".usa," have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the...

The Federal Trade Commission today entered into a proposed consent order with the National Academy of Arbitrators (NAA), which would require the group to remove restrictions on truthful advertising...

The Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Enforcement announced today that it recently conducted a surf of 63 Internet retailers offering top-selling holiday items. The purpose of the "HolidaySmarts2...

The Federal Trade Commission announced today that the federal district court for the Southern District of New York has approved an agreement between the Commission and a major billing aggregator and...

Application for approval of proposed divestiture: The Commission has received an application from Solvay S.A. (Solvay) for FTC approval of a proposed divestiture to Dyneon LLC. The divestiture is...

The Commission has approved the publication of a Federal Register notice concerning the FTC's Textile Fiber Products Identification Act (Textile Act) and the Wool Products Labeling Act (Wool Act)...

Staff of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics and General Counsel's Office of Policy Studies on November 15, 2002, provided the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) with comments...

The Commission has approved four applications from America Online/Time Warner, Inc. (AOLTW) requesting approval of non-affiliated Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and alternative cable broadband...