Press Releases

United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan, Assistant Attorney General Robert D. McCallum, Jr., and Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition Director Joe Simons announced today that a federal...

Univend, LLC, and its owner Paul Hall, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they failed to provide the pre-sale disclosure documents required by the FTC's Franchise Rule to...

The Commission has approved the publication of a Federal Register notice related to the Appliance Labeling Rule (16 CFR Part 305). The FTC is seeking public comment on a proposed rule change and...

The Commission has granted supplemental petitions from the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) and the American Teleservices Association (ATA) regarding their request to stay the effective date of...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice today released a detailed schedule for the sessions of their joint hearings on health care and competition law and policy to be held April 9...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it will issue a revised Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend its Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR), adding a new section that would impose fees...

In testimony today before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform, Howard Beales, Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, detailed...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced two complaints and proposed consent orders with two of the largest purveyors of laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) refractive eye surgery...

The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice today released a detailed agenda for the sessions of their joint hearings on health care and competition law and policy to be held during April -...

The Federal Trade Commission today released its schedule for creating and implementing the national "do not call" registry, first announced in December 2002 as part of the Amended Telemarketing Sales...

Howard Beales, Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, will hold a media availability on Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 2:00 p.m. EST to provide reporters with details...

The second session of the Federal Trade Commission/Department of Justice joint hearings on health care and competition law and policy will begin on Wednesday, March 26 at 9:15 a.m. EST. The hearings...

The Commission has authorized staff to file an amicus brief jointly with the U.S. Department of Justice in the matter concerning Empagran S.A. v . Hoffman-LaRoche, Ltd. No. 01-7115 (D.C. Cir.). The...

Interested in the effect of the recent proliferation of single-specialty hospitals? Curious as to the explanation or implications of the DOJ's and FTC's string of hospital merger litigation losses...

An operator who used deceptive claims to market commodities, stock, real estate and other investment courses has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that his deceptive claims violated...

Anne and Stanford Miller, two of the three individuals involved in a medical billing work-at-home scam, are banned from promoting or selling work-at-home business opportunities as part of a settlement...

Court approval of settlement: A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, in Greensboro, has approved a settlement of the Commission’s action against the...

The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice (DOJ) today issued a letter urging the Georgia State Bar's Standing Committee on the Unlicensed Practice of Law to reject a request for an...

The Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint charging a mortgage spamming operation with violating federal laws by using an array of deceptions to con consumers into sharing their personal...

Mitchell Gold, Patricia Gold, Herbert Gold, and Celia Gold, individuals who operated a for-profit fundraising business, are barred from further fundraising and telemarketing activities as part of a...