An operation charged with billing consumers for "free" trial Web sites has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their practices were illegal. The settlement will require Mercury...

The Federal Trade Commission's annual report on cigarette sales and advertising for 1999 shows that cigarette sales fell from 1998 to1999, but advertising and promotional expenditures increased...

A federal district court has ordered a temporary halt to a California-based telemarketing scheme that purportedly sold work-at-home medical billing opportunities. Medicor LLC, and its manager, Andrew...

Corporate Supplies, Inc., based in Cummings, Georgia, and its principals, Larry Sarchenko and Robert Henkel, have agreed to pay $20,000 in consumer redress as part of a settlement with the Federal...

The Commission has approved the filing of a notice of dismissal regarding a defendant in the following matter: FTC v. Ty Anderson, et al. The complaint in this matter was announced in October 2000 as...

The federal Interagency Task Force on Fair Lending has published a Spanish-language version of its popular brochure for consumers, Looking for the Best Mortgage: Shop, Compare, Negotiate. The brochure...

Enerjet Corporation ("Enerjet") has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its brochures overstated the energy efficiency of certain boilers, in violation of the Energy Policy...

The Commission has authorized staff to file with the court to amend a previously issued complaint regarding the following: Verity International Ltd., et al. The FTC brought this complaint contending...

The Federal Trade Commission today filed a complaint in federal court charging Associates First Capital Corporation and Associates Corporation of North America (collectively, The Associates) with...

The Car Wash Guys International, Inc., based in Agoura Hills, California, and its principals have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false earnings claims to market and...

The Commission has approved a technical amendment to the following: FTC Rule 4.1(b). As detailed in a Federal Register notice to be published shortly, the Commission is amending this Rule to make it...

In prepared remarks delivered today before the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky asserts a continuing...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it is seeking information regarding the results to date of different regulatory approaches to the introduction of competition into the retail sale of...

Following an investigation coordinated with the British Columbia Ministry of Attorney General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ("RCMP"), the Federal...

Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a consent order regarding the following and forwarded letters to two commentors of record: Philip Morris Co. Inc. and Nabisco Holdings...

Automatic Merchandising Corporation, based in Jupiter, Florida, and its owner, Alan Manning, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they failed to provide the pre-sale disclosures...

Predatory lending practices in the subprime market were the subject of testimony delivered by Ronald G. Isaac, Assistant to the Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced it has appointed Dale Hatfield, a telecommunications consultant from Boulder, Colorado, as the monitor trustee in the America Online ("AOL")/Time Warner...

The Commission has approved an implementation trustee agreement regarding the following: Entergy Corporation, et al. On January 31, 2001, the FTC issued its order related to the purchase of Gulf South...

Two Illinois-based companies named in a 1999 lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice at the request of the Federal Trade Commission have agreed to settle charges that they engaged in a bogus office...