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Nearly 18,000 borrowers could receive as much as $60 million dollars in compensation under the terms of a settlement of a lawsuit involving a California-based home mortgage lender and its chief...

The FTC today told the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information that while there is good reason for consumers to be concerned about falling victim...

The Chairman of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission, Timothy J. Muris, today testified on behalf of the Commission before the Senate Appropriation Committee's Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and...

A U.S. District Court has held a magazine subscription telemarketing group in contempt of court and ordered it to pay $39 million in consumer redress for violating the terms of a 1996 Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade...

The Commission has received an application from Diageo PLC (Diageo) regarding the FTC's decision and order contained in the consent agreement accepted on December 19, 2001 that conditionally allowed...

Joseph J. Simons, Director of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, today announced plans to conduct public workshops regarding modifications and improvements to the Commission's...

Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commissioner Mozelle W. Thompson was elected Chair of the OECD's Committee on Consumer Policy at today's commencement of the Committee's spring meeting in Paris. The Committee on...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice today announced topics, times and locations, and participants for the March sessions of their joint hearings on...

The Commission recently published a Request for Information (RFI) seeking companies or individuals (including contractors) to help in the development, deployment, and operation of a proposed national...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission will host a two-day public workshop to explore issues related to the security of consumers' computers and the personal information stored in them or in company databases...

An operation that used deceptive spam messages and appeals to patriotism to sell Web addresses that don't work, including ".usa," has been shut down by a U. S. District Court at the request of the...

Information brokers who allegedly used deception to obtain consumers' confidential financial information have agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that their practices violated federal...

What: Press Availability Who: J. Howard Beales, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection will announce a law enforcement initiative targeting deceptive spam that appealed to post 9-11...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has negotiated a settlement designed to remedy the alleged anticompetitive effects resulting from the proposed $170 million acquisition of Leiner Davis Gelatin Corporation...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced that it has closed its investigation into whether the proposed merger of Hewlett-Packard, Inc., (HP) and Compaq Computer Corporation (Compaq) may...

The marketers of Wonder Bread have agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that ads claiming that Wonder Bread containing added calcium could improve children's brain function and memory...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced a proposed settlement agreement with Palm, Inc. (Palm), the leading manufacturer of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). The settlement concerns Palm's...

On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission's settlements with a national advertiser and its advertising agency with respect to unsubstantiated claims made for a food product will be...

The nation's two federal antitrust enforcement agencies, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission (FTC) and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ), today announced that they have entered into a...

The Commission has approved publication of a Â鶹´«Ã½ Register notice on how the FTC would implement a national do-not-call registry under the FTC's recently proposed amendments to the Telemarketing...