Email Marketing Best Practices (Free subscription) | yesterday
Recently the FTC has approved four new rules under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. You can find the press release here. In this article, Mark Merckler, General Counsel for UniqueLeads explains what it all means in layman's terms: Contrary to what many believed they would do, the FTC did not...
Perilocity (Free subscription) | yesterday
The U.S. FTC has updated its regulations regarding the CAN-SPAM Act (PDF) to require: (1) an e-mail recipient cannot be required to pay a fee, provide information other than his or her e-mail address and opt-out preferences, or take any...
beSpacific (Free subscription) | yesterday
News release: "The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics will host a conference on May 29 to highlight and assess...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Besieged mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. is facing renewed regulatory scrutiny this week after a federal judge ruled it must face a shareholder lawsuit and Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-NY, called for an investigation into its lending practices.
The Lustigman Firm, P.C. Attorneys (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
A website that offered "free trials" of its herbal products, including smoking cessation patches, has agreed to halt its allegedly deceptive practices, pending trial. The FTC sued NextClick Media alleging that the trials weren't free, the patches didn't work as claimed, and the operation was illegally debiting consumers' bank accounts without their authorization. In entering the Stipulated Preliminary...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-NY, has asked the Federal Trade Commission to open a probe into beleaguered mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. , after courts in several states ruled the company used heavy-handed or illegal tactics in bankruptcy proceedings against debtors. Schumer made the request in a letter to FTC Chairman William Kovacic, citing "cases in multiple states...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
For a change, the FTC is right.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Amidst the expanding trajectory of the Rwandan economy, consumers' rights and interests are to be protected and promoted, an official has said.
Glick Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yesterday Carl Icahn made news by calling Yahoo’s board “irresponsible” for blowing off Microsoft's $47.5 billion bid. Icahn spent $1.3 billion purchasing 59 million shares and has a 4.3% stake in the company and plans on seeking approval from the FTC to buy up to $2.5 billion in Yahoo stock. In his move to convince [...]
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Commissioner William Kovacic of the FTC provides a Review of Antitrust Stories (Eleanor Fox and Dan Crane, editors, Foundation Press 2007). ABSTRACT: In the eye of the historian, published judicial decisions are badly incomplete accounts...
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I am organizing a signature campaign from US academics to Congress for direct appropriations for the DOJ and FTC for technical assistance (see my papers on antitrust technical assistance here and here). There is currently...
http://podblack.wordpress.com/feed/ (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Steven Novella commented today on the C-51 case at the US-based Science-Based Medicine blog. Novella concludes, “this episode serves to expose the outrageous hypocrisy of the purveyors of unscientific or unproven treatments who are happy to be champions of consumer protection when it suits their needs, and then the next moment to decry consumer protection laws as fascist...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that the agency is expanding efforts to monitor diesel and jet fuel prices.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
The OFT is launching an inquiry into the unregulated market for homes that are sold at a discount and then leased back to former owners amid concerns over consumer protection
The Sideshow (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
" Pitter Patter of Cutting Out Your Rights : " The larger suits to establish Federal pre-emption of consumer protection have brought notice to a smaller, quieter campaign against America that the worst administration ever has been conducting. Your rights are being chipped away in wording by revising regulatory bases, or preambles. The new direction taken at executive branch agencies eliminates...
