Julie Brill chosen for Federal Trade Commission
Boston Globe - Thu Nov 19, 9:48 am ETPresident Barack Obama has selected former Vermont Assistant Attorney General Julie Brill to join the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
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Obama tabs NC attorney to Federal Trade Commission
AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 17, 2:59 pm ETNorth Carolina's consumer protection chief for Attorney General Roy Cooper has been picked to join the Federal Trade Commission.
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President Nominates Local Attorney to Federal Trade Commission
Metropolitan News-Enterprise - Wed Nov 18, 12:13 pm ETPresident Obama yesterday nominated Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges partner Edith Ramirez to the Federal Trade Commission.
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Company Selling 'free' Web Auction Kits Settles With FTC
PC World via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 19, 4:10 pm ETAn online marketer offering supposedly free Internet auction kits has settled a complaint filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for charging consumers US$59.95 a month for enrollment in an "online-supplier" program, the FTC said Thursday.
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Pre-Paid Legal Services Clarifies Previous FTC Announcement
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Fri Nov 20, 8:37 am ETPre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. wishes to clarify information provided in our press release issued yesterday, November 19, 2009. We believe the proposed draft complaint from the Federal Trade Commission referred to in yesterday's release is the next step in an ongoing process between us and the FTC that began in March 2007.
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FTC threatens fines, jail for online check service operators
Ars Technica - Thu Nov 19, 1:39 pm ETThe Federal Trade Commission has charged those behind the shady online check service Qchex with contempt, and wants daily fines imposed on them until they give up the ghost. The group has launched a new site—a Qchex clone—with the same questionable policies that made Qchex a "dinner bell for fraudsters." This has left the FTC fuming, and it wants the site's operators to quit helping criminals ...
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Pre-Paid Legal Services Addresses FTC Complaint
Fox News - Fri Nov 20, 8:00 pm ETOn Friday, Pre-Paid Legal Services (PPD) tried to diffuse some of the negativity brought on by a complaint from the Federal Trade Commission by saying the complaint was the “next step in an ongoing process."
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Pre-Paid Legal: FTC papers part of ongoing process
AP via Yahoo! Finance - Fri Nov 20, 12:56 pm ETPre-Paid Legal Services Inc., a network of independent law firms, clarified on Friday that a draft lawsuit it has received from the Federal Trade Commission is part of an ongoing process.
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Blue Hippo Facing More Legal Trouble from FTC
ABC 2 Baltimore - Fri Nov 20, 6:27 pm ETThe Baltimore-based computer retailer is in hot water again with the Federal Trade Commission.
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Pre-Paid Legal Services says FTC may sue
AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 19, 4:36 pm ETPre-Paid Legal Services Inc., a network of independent law firms, said Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission may sue the company over allegedly misleading representations made by its identity theft prevention program.
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Pre-Paid Legal Plays Down FTC Draft Complaint; Shares Rise
Nasdaq - Fri Nov 20, 9:47 am ETPre-Paid Legal Services Inc. (PPD) sought to undo some of the damage done by its disclosure Thursday that it got a draft complaint from the Federal Trade Commission, saying on Friday it believes the move is merely "the next step in an ongoing process."
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Obama tabs NC attorney to Federal Trade Commission
WTOL 11 Toledo - Tue Nov 17, 3:30 pm ETBlue Hippo Facing More Legal Trouble from FTC
ABC 2 Baltimore - Fri Nov 20, 6:27 pm ETPre-Paid Legal: FTC papers part of ongoing process
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FTC Consumer Protection News
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FTC Settlements Bar Deceptive Online Marketing of "Free" Internet Auction Kits
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FTC Charges Online Check Writing Marketers with Contempt
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FTC Issues Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) for Fiscal Year 2009
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Federal Regulators Issue Final Model Privacy Notice Form
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FTC Warns Internet Peddlers that Marketing Unproven H1N1 Flu Products May Be Illegal
Mon Nov 16, 11:00 am EST
