News Releases for January 1997

January 31, 1997

• FYI: Announced Actions for Janaury 31, 1997
• FYI: Mobile Health Resources, L.L.C.

January 30, 1997

• FTC Settles Charges with American Cyanamid; Agency Alleged Company Had Fixed Prices and Restricted Competition
• FYI: Ohio Ambulance Network, Inc.

January 29, 1997

• FTC Obtains Relief for Health Care Consumers in California County

January 28, 1997

• Defendants in FTC Medical Billing Software Business Opportunity Case To Pay $146,750 for Consumer Redress
• FYI: Announced Actions for Janaury 28, 1997

January 27, 1997

• Ad Agency, Work-at-Home Promoter To Settle FTC Charges; Infomercial Contained Unproven Earnings Claims

January 24, 1997

• Marketer of "Nightsafe" Eyeglasses Agrees To Settle Charges of Unsubstantiated Claims of Safety While Driving at Night
• FYI: Announced Actions for January 24, 1997

January 23, 1997

• Immigration Attorney Charged with Misleading Thousands of People Applying for Visas
• Two More FTC Cases in Car Area Target Misleading Ads with Unclear, Inaccurate Terms
• FTC Announces Project To Follow Global and Innovation-Based Competition Hearings

January 22, 1997

• Pizzeria Uno Restaurant Chain Agrees to Settle FTC Charges
• FTC Announces Results of the First Year of the Funeral Rule Offenders Program

January 17, 1997

• FYI: Announced Actions for January 17, 1997 [corrected]
• FYI: FTC Has Announced Changes in Clayton Act Threshold Figures

January 16, 1997

• FTC Case Targets Deceptive Selling of Living Trusts

January 15, 1997

• FTC Negotiates Settlement with Mailing House over Allegedly Fraudulent Promotions

January 14, 1997

• FYI: Announced Actions for January 14, 1997

January 10, 1997

• Red Apple To Pay $600,000 Civil Penalty for Failing To Divest Manhattan Supermarkets as Required by FTC
• FYI: Announced Actions for January 10, 1997

January 8, 1997

• Smokeless Tobacco Advertising and Promotional Expenditures and Revenues Up, According to FTC Report to Congress

January 7, 1997

• FYI: Announced Actions for January 7, 1997

January 6, 1997

• Consumer Privacy in the Online Marketplace Addressed in FTC Staff Report
• FYI: "Who Cares" about Health Care Products and Services? The FTC and your state Attorney General, that's who!

January 2, 1997

• Abbott Settles FTC Charges of Deceptive Claims for Its "Ensure" Nutritional Products
• Property Inspection Franchisors Agree To Post $300,000 Bond To Protect Future Franchisees under Settlement with FTC

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