The Federal Trade Commission has charged Phillip W. Ranney and a group of Colorado-based mortgage brokers with violating federal laws by deceptively claiming that they will refinance consumers’...

A U.S. District Court has issued a Temporary Restraining Order to halt U.S. sales of a HIV/AIDS home test kit. The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint alleging that the kit’s marketer...

A federal district court has approved a stipulated order including a permanent injunction against Biosource Financial, Inc., Gordon Levy, Jason C. Williams, and Danny Longo, defendants named in a 2002...

Commission comment to the federal banking agencies and National Credit Union Administration: The Federal Trade Commission has submitted comments to the federal banking agencies and the National Credit...

In 30 years as an antitrust enforcer, academic, and consultant on antitrust issues, I have rarely seen a report so fundamentally flawed as the GAO study of several oil mergers that the Federal Trade...

The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit in federal court to halt a scam that drained millions of dollars out of thousands of consumers’ checking accounts for “discount pharmacy cards” the...

Albert Mouyal, the remaining defendant cited by a Federal Trade Commission action with operating a bogus telemarketing boiler room in Canada, is permanently banned from telemarketing directories and...

Commission authorization of the staff to file amicus brief: The Commission has authorized the filing of a joint amicus brief with the Department of Justice in McMahon v. Advanced Title Services...

Application for approval of proposed divestiture: The Commission has received an application for approval of a proposed divestiture from GenCorp, Inc., related to the FTC’s consent order conditionally...

Commission approval of Federal Register notice: The Federal Trade Commission has approved the publication of a Federal Register notice concerning several revisions to certain provisions of the Fair...

The Federal Trade Commission today told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation that it has established a special Task Force of federal and state law enforcers to target illegal...

Comment period for RFID Workshop extended: The FTC has extended until July 9, 2004 the deadline for filing comments on “Radio Frequency Identification: Applications and Implications for Consumers.” On...

Effective today, spam that contains sexually-oriented material must include the warning “SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT: ” in the subject line or face fines for violations of federal law. The CAN-SPAM Act, passed...

The Federal Trade Commission has charged California-based marketers of the “Balance Bracelet,” a purported pain relief product, with making false and unsubstantiated claims. In its complaint filed in...

Tens of thousands of consumers who were victims of SkyBiz.com, an Internet pyramid scam disguised as a legitimate business opportunity, may qualify to share in a $20 million court-ordered redress fund...

The former general counsel of Capital City Mortgage Corporation, a Washington, DC-area mortgage lender and servicer whose deceptive lending practices the Federal Trade Commission is challenging in...

One of the nation’s largest debt-collection firms will pay $1.5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) by reporting inaccurate...

Greeting Cards of America, Inc. (GCA), and its owners, Gerald Towbin and Susan Towbin, are banned from marketing any franchise, business venture, or business opportunity as part of a settlement with...

A federal district court in Illinois has granted the Federal Trade Commission’s motion for summary judgment in its case against Peter J. Porcelli, II and several of his Largo, Florida-based companies...

The Federal Trade Commission’s Bureaus of Consumer Protection and Economics, and the Office of Policy Planning staff provided comments this week to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on three...