- For Release: January 9, 2009
FTC Charges Pittsburgh-Area MLS With Illegally Restraining CompetitionCommission Order Prohibits Real Estate MLS From Taking Actions to Disadvantage Properties Listed by Discount Brokers
- For Release: January 8, 2009
Three Home Loan Advertisers Settle FTC Charges; Failed to Disclose Key Loan Terms in AdsThree mortgage loan advertisers that allegedly deceptively touted low monthly payments and low rates without fully disclosing loan terms have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their ads violated federal law.
- For Release: January 8, 2009
Mortgage Foreclosure "Rescue" Operators Settle with FTCA mortgage foreclosure rescue service that claimed that, for a $1,200 fee, they would stop foreclosure and save consumers’ homes, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated federal law.
- For Release: January 6, 2009
General Counsel William Blumenthal To Leave FTCFederal Trade Commission Chairman William E. Kovacic announced today that William Blumenthal, the agency’s General Counsel for almost four years, will leave the agency to return to private law practice.
- For Your Information: January 6, 2009
Commission Announces Revised Jurisdictional Thresholds for Section 7A and Section 8 of the Clayton ActThe Commission, by a vote of 4-0, has approved a Federal Register notice announcing the revised thresholds for the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 required by the 2000 amendments to Section 7A of the Clayton Act. Section 7A(a)(2) requires the FTC to revise the jurisdictional thresholds annually, based on the change in gross national product, in accordance with Section 8(a)(5).
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