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A federal District Court in New Jersey has issued a permanent injunction against a New Jersey seller of child-modeling services, at the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission's request. National Talent Associates...

Petitions to reopen and modify or set aside orders: The FTC has received a petition from the following entity seeking changes in, or termination of, an FTC order. The FTC is seeking public comments on...

South Florida Business Ventures, based in Boynton Beach, and its owner Warren Izard, have agreed to pay a $11,000 civil penalty to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that they sold a credit card...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced the following action. Petitions to reopen and modify or set aside orders: The FTC has approved a petition from the following entity seeking changes in, or...

United States Attorney Thomas E. Scott, Acting Assistant Attorney General David W. Ogden, and the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission announced today the indictment of Kenneth Sterling on criminal contempt...

A plan to establish a network of independent community pharmacies and pharmacists, that would contract with managed care organizations and physician groups to provide both drug distribution and...

Consumer groups, telecommunications and pay-per-call industry representatives, state law enforcement and regulatory agencies and others will take part in a two-day workshop, May 20 and 21, at the...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has obtained a federal district court order freezing the assets of a scam that dupes consumers into making costly international telephone calls in an attempt to ward off...

Two of the nation's leading providers of individual disability insurance have agreed to resolve Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission antitrust concerns arising from their merger. The proposed agreement between...

Tom Davis, a telemarketer for Vendors Financial Services (VFS), who also posed to unwitting consumers as a successful distributor of products contained in vending machines, has agreed to a permanent...

May 14, 1999 Welcome to the FTC workshop on our consumer protection rules and guides. Our goal today is to discuss how they apply to newer forms of electronic media, with particular emphasis on the...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission announced today a proposed settlement of antitrust concerns stemming from the acquisition of COBE Cardiovascular, Inc., COBE Laboratories Inc., and other assets and...

Quexco Incorporated has agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that its acquisition of Pacific Dunlop GNB Corporation would create a monopoly that could result in reduced competition and...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has negotiated the largest civil penalty ever obtained in a settlement of alleged violations of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA). Franklin Acceptance Corporation...

Dell Computer Corp. and Micron Electronics, Inc. have agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that their computer lease advertisements violated federal laws. According to the agency, both...

Fitness Quest, Inc., based in Canton, Ohio, and its president, Robert R. Schnabel, Jr., have agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that they made numerous unsubstantiated claims in...

"Since 1995, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has encouraged online firms to offer privacy protections to consumers to encourage broad participation in electronic commerce. Last year, the FTC reported to...

At the request of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission, a federal district court judge has permanently barred Inetintl.Com, Inc., doing business as Inet International, and two individual defendants from...

National Credit Management Group of Fort Lee and Edgewater, New Jersey, and its principals, Glen Buzzetti and Joseph Ferguson, have agreed to settle charges brought against them by the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade...

Commissioner Mozelle W. Thompson testified today on behalf of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission before a House Subcommittee on deregulation and competition in the electric power industry. Thompson spoke to...