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  1. Gary Gensler (L), Chairman of the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission, US Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner (2ndL), US Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (2ndR) and Jon Leibowitz (R), Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, listen as US President Barack Obama...
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  3. BEIJING, CHINA - JULY 27: (L - R) The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chairman Jon Leibowitz, Christine A. Varney, assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice, during signing ceremony of memorandum of understanding on cooperation between...
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  1. The Federal Trade Commission could step in. The state attorneys general could step in. You could sue them under the Lanham Act … part of it prohibits false advertising ... There are a number of ways you could go after deceptive advertisements, but trademarking the GI Bill is not the way to do it.
    SOURCE: BusinessWeek 2 weeks ago
  2. Scammers who cause injury to homeowners under the guise of offering assistance must not be tolerated ... We believe Mr. Cronauer and the Cronauer Law Center to be in violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Mortgage Assistance Relief Act rules, and other state and federal laws. We look forward...
    SOURCE: Consumerist 2 weeks ago
  3. the proposed partnership ... will give them a little less than half of Omaha in patient market share. I would suspect that this is something that the Federal Trade Commission would want to review.
    SOURCE: Omaha.com 3 weeks ago
  4. There are millions of these scams reported to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) every year ... The Grandparent Scam is happening hundreds of thousands of times a day across the country.
    SOURCE: The Seattle Times 3 weeks ago
  5. If he believes the oil markets are being manipulated, where’s his Federal Trade Commission? Where is the SEC?
    SOURCE: WJZ 3 weeks ago
  6. Where is his Federal Trade Commission? Where is the SEC?
    SOURCE: MSNBC 4 weeks ago
  7. I think the Europeans are going to come down on them (Google) hard and I think the Federal Trade Commission and our states will do that as well.
    SOURCE: Ottawa Citizen 1 month ago
  8. This bill does not have broad support and creates another, potentially very expensive, level of regulation ... We would be turning rule-making authority over to the Federal Trade Commission and, to my knowledge, it knows very little about horseracing.
    SOURCE: Blood Horse 1 month ago
  9. Graco Inc. (GGG-NYSE) announced that it has reached an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission that will allow it to close its previously halted acquisition of ITW's Finishing Businesses (FB), with the closing date currently scheduled for April 2, 2012
    SOURCE: The Street 1 month ago
  10. The Federal Trade Commission that tracks the statistics, not only for 2011 was identity theft the number one complaint that consumers made but over the last 12 years, it's been at the top of the list
    SOURCE: FOX-KHON 2 Hawaii 1 month ago
  11. One of the misrepresentations identified by the [Federal Trade Commission in a settlement with Facebook] was that ‘Facebook told users they could restrict sharing of data to limited audiences – for example with ‘Friends Only.’ In fact, selecting ‘Friends Only’ did not prevent their information from bein...
    SOURCE: Forbes Blogs 1 month ago
  12. The Federal Trade Commission never had the big guns, but the CFPB does. ... We think it will be an exciting time.
    SOURCE: MSNBC 1 month ago
  13. No issues are higher on NACDS’ list of priorities than urging members of Congress to express to the Federal Trade Commission their concerns and opposition to the proposed Express Scripts and Medco merger, and advocating for legislation to regulate pharmacy benefit managers.
    SOURCE: Big Government 1 month ago
  14. According to the Federal Trade Commission, reports of imposter scams were up 22 percent in 2011 ... Since most grandparents would not hesitate to help out their grandchildren, these scams are lucrative for criminals and often net thousands of dollars at a time.
    SOURCE: Madison.com 1 month ago
  15. This signals the states think the Federal Trade Commission is going to green-light the deal
    SOURCE: Bloomberg.com 1 month ago
  16. This signals the states think the Federal Trade Commission is going to green-light the deal ... Whether or not five states are enough to scuttle the deal, that would seem unlikely since that’s the Federal Trade Commission’s job.
    SOURCE: NJ.com 1 month ago
  17. We urge the Federal Trade Commission to aggressively pursue fur advertising and labeling scofflaws, both to protect consumers and to create a level playing field for law-abiding retailers.
    SOURCE: KHOU.com 2 months ago
  18. We are confident that Pfizer's procurement and enforcement of its Lipitor patents was at all times proper and lawful ... The Lipitor patent settlements, including the settlement with Ranbaxy, were submitted for review by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and are proper and lawful in all respects. We vie...
    SOURCE: Thomson Reuters News & Insight 2 months ago
  19. Once you have that, report the sender as spam on Facebook and file a grievance with the Federal Trade Commission
    SOURCE: FOX Sports 2 months ago
  20. Buying a new car or truck is a major financial commitment, and the last thing consumers need is to be tricked into thinking that a dealer will 'pay off' what they owe on their current vehicle, when they really won't ... The Federal Trade Commission is constantly on the lookout for potentially deceptive ...
    SOURCE: Consumerist 2 months ago
  21. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission subpoenaed Apple Inc. as part of its antitrust probe of Google Inc., seeking information on how the computer maker uses the search engine on the iPhone and iPad, two people familiar with the matter said
    SOURCE: MacDailyNews 2 months ago
  22. NTIA expects that a company's public commitment to follow a code of conduct will be legally enforceable, provided the company is subject to the Federal Trade Commission's jurisdiction.
    SOURCE: ReadWriteWeb 2 months ago
  23. at the request of the Federal Trade Commission, we have responded to their questions about additional ways to address these concerns.
    SOURCE: Wall Street Journal 2 months ago
  24. The work of that group has been ongoing and looking to see if there are inappropriate manipulations of the market ... The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is also working in this area ... but I understand they're working on a report of some sort that we should be seeing, I believe, relatively soon.
    – Eric Holder SOURCE: Reuters Mobile 2 months ago
  25. A general rule is that the rules of engagement, which apply to the Internet, apply as well to social media ... The Federal Trade Commission oversees most of what businesses are doing and will investigate the social media conduct of anyone engaged in commerce. You may not think that the FTC will be watch...
    SOURCE: Reading Eagle 2 months ago
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