Announced Action for March 7, 1996
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The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced the following actions. The FTC staff contact is Dan Ducore, 202-326-2526. Applications for prior approval of transactions: The FTC has received an...
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900-Number BusOp Fraud
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The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission warned today that tens of thousands of consumers may be investing in fraudulent business opportunities for 900-number lines. The agency announced “Project Buylines,†which...
Building Inspection Franchise Defendant to Pay $10,000 Civil Penalty
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Beverly Tisei, one of the defendants in a Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission action against The Building Inspector of America, Inc., has agreed to pay a $10,000 civil penalty as part of a settlement of federal...
FTCs Bernstein Outlines Ongoing Campaign Against Telemarketing Fraud that Targets Older Customers
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Prize promotions and sweepstakes offers represent the largest source of complaints to a federal/state telemarketing fraud database and older consumers often are the targets of such scams, a Â鶹´«Ã½...
Maker of Earthrite Cleaner Line Charged with Making False Cause-Related Marketing Claims
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Benckiser Consumer Products, Inc. has agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that it made false and misleading "cause-related marketing" claims in advertising its "EarthRite" line of...
Announced Action for March 5, 1996
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Petition to reopen or modify an order: The FTC has received a petition from the following entity. The petition will be subject to public comment for 30 days, until April 5. NorAm Energy Corp., of...
FTC has Formally Proposed to Repeal its Leather Belt Rule
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The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has formally proposed to repeal its Leather Belt Rule, because the agency plans to replace the rule and other FTC regulations pertaining to individual leather products...
Pitofsky Summarizes Past, Present, Future of Antitrust Â鶹´«Ã½
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As a result of debates in the 1960s and 1980s over core issues of antitrust, there is an incomplete but rough consensus about enforcement priorities, Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky...
Announced Actions for March 1, 1996
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The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced the following actions. Unless otherwise noted, the FTC staff contact is Dan Ducore, 202-326-2526. Commission action regarding a petition to reopen or...
Mrs. Fields Settles FTC Charges: Low Fat Cookies Ads and Promotions were Misleading
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Mrs. Fields Cookies, Inc. has agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that advertising and promotional materials touting a cookie line as "low fat" were false and misleading for two of the...
FTC Settlement in Massive Sweepstakes-Entry Scam to Net $1.25 Million for Consumer Redress:
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A total of $1.25 million will be available for consumers victimized by a massive sweepstakes scam because of a settlement the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission reached in a case it filed last year to stop...
Company That Uses Fictitious "Book Review" to Sell Books Agrees to Settle FTC Charges
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Georgetown Publishing House Limited Partnership, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based publishing firm, and its president have agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that they used deceptive...
FTC's Pitofsky Outlines How Antitrust Â鶹´«Ã½ can Adapt to Rapidly Changing Health Care Arena.
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Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky said today that further guidance under existing laws rather than statutory directives being considered by Congress are the best way to aid further...
FTC Settlement Over Saint-Gobain Acquisition of Carborundum to Remedy Lessening of Competition in Three Markets
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The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has negotiated a settlement with the French firm, Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, and its U.S. subsidiary, Saint-Gobain/Norton Industrial Ceramics Corporation, of Worcester...
Announced Actions for February 23, 1996
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The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced the following actions. The staff contacts are Dan Ducore, 202-326-2526 and Elizabeth Piotrowski, 202-326-2623. Petitions to reopen and modify or set aside...
FTC Today Proposed Amending its Appliance Labeling Rule.
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The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today proposed amending its Appliance Labeling Rule to allow appliance manufacturers to place energy use labels required by the Canadian and Mexican governments directly...
FTC and FCC Alert Consumers Who May be Unwittingly Leasing Phones
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In 1984, before the break up of Ma Bell, about 55 million consumers leased their telephones. Today, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission and the Â鶹´«Ã½ Communications Commission launched a campaign to alert...
Anthony E. DiResta Named Director of FTC's Atlanta Regional Office
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Anthony E. DiResta has been named Director of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission’s Regional Office in Atlanta, Georgia, by FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky. Since 1984, DiResta has been in private practice and...
Announced Actions for February 16, 1996
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Consent order given final approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has determined to issue a consent order against the following company as final, thus making the consent order’s...
Litton To Settle Charges in PRC Acquisition: Will Divest System Engineering Contract for Navy Aegis Destroyer
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Litton Industries, Inc, has agreed to divest the multi-million dollar systems engineering and technical assistance contract for the Navy’s Aegis destroyer program to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission...
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