Article: Bargains & Deals Magazine charged with Internet fraud; Company allegedly misrepresented products, did not deliver merchandise to consumers.

Article: FTC act's Section 5 apparently applies across the ...
Response;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... FTC) issued its "Mail Order Rule," which essentially provided that mail-order merchandise had to be ... regulations, such as the mail order rule, but brings most ... under Section 5 of the FTC Act, which prohibits "unfair ...

Article: Marketer of "Clubby" Beanie Baby charged with failing to timely ...
M2 Presswire;  February 18, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... option. The requirements of the Mail Order Rule also apply to telephone ... states that Cyrk violated the Mail Order Rule by: failing to offer consumers ... from future violations of the Mail Order Rule and the FTC Act. The proposed settlement also ...

Article: WHEN CONSUMER FRAUD CROSSES THE INTERNATIONAL LINE: THE BASIS FOR ...
Northwestern University Law Review;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Origins of the Consumer Fraud Provisions of the FTC Act ... REJECTION OF THE EXTRATERRITORIALITY OF THE FTC ACT ... ... ... . 308 IV. THE FTC ACT OVERCOMES THE PRESUMPTION AGAINST EXTRATERRITORIALITY ...

Article: FTC Alleges Unocal Used "Patent Ambush" To Gain.(Federal Trade ...
Mondaq Business Briefing;  March 7, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... of California ("Unocal") with violating Section 5 of the FTC Act by illegally acquiring monopoly power in the technology market ... to competition and to consumers. Background Section 5 of the FTC Act empowers the FTC to prevent the use of unfair methods of competition ...

Article: Section 5 of the FTC Act: Dej- Vu All Over ...
Mondaq Business Briefing;  August 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... decision. There, Commissioner Leibowitz articulates a serious argument for the rebirth of enforcement of Section 5 of the FTC Act. To paraphrase, failure to appreciate past errors will lead us to repeat those errors, and Commissioner Leibowitz spends ...

Article: Too Vague for Both Sides: FTC Act enforcement ...
American Banker;  December 16, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... that by statute would fall to the Federal Reserve Board -- are slim. The OCC has not waited for regulations to enforce the FTC Act. Under a strategy it adopted in 2000, it enforces section 5 of the law on a selective basis; it takes action against specific ...

Article: New Goals, New Methods: Consumer focus has regulators using ...
American Banker;  December 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... have also gotten into the act. In March the Fed and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. issued standards for enforcing the FTC Act's ban of unfair or deceptive acts or practices, also known as "UDAP." Further, the Fed took the first step in a wholesale ...