• Staff Opinion Letter to the MBA [PDF 85K]
  

May 6, 2004

• Mortgage Bankers Association Letter re FTC-Fairbanks Consent Order [PDF 35K]
  

July 28, 2004

• File No. 041-0054
  The Proposed Joint Venture Between Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann AG
  • Letter to Counsel for Sony Corporation of America
  • Letter to Counsel for Bertelsmann AG
  • Statement of Commissioner Thompson
  • News Release

July 1, 2004

• File No. 011 0225
  Vista Health Acquisition of Provena St. Therese Medical Center
  • Closing Letter to Counsel for Vista Health [PDF 21K]
  • Closing Letter to Counsel for Provena St. Therese Medical Center [PDF 21K]
  • Statement of the Commisison
  • Joint Statement of Commissioners Mozelle W. Thompson and Pamela Jones Harbour
  • News Release

June 22, 2004

• File No. 041 0017
  Proposed Merger Between RJ Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc. and British American Tobacco p.l.c.,
  • Statement of the Commission
  • Concurring Statement of Commissioner Thompson
  • Closing Letter to Counsel for RJ Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc.
  • Closing Letter to Counsel for British American Tobacco p.l.c.
  • News Release

June 7, 2004

• File No. 031 0245
  Proposed Acquisition of Horseshoe Gaming Holding Corp., an entity controlled by Jack B. Binion, By Harrah's Entertainment, Inc.
  • Closing Letter to Counsel for Harrah's [PDF 14KB]
  • Closing Letter to Counsel for Horseshoe [PDF 14KB]

May 19, 2003

• File No. 031 0017
  Save Mart Supermarkets
  • Letter to Counsel for Save Mart Supermarkets [PDF 10KB]
  • Letter to Counsel forFleming Companies, Inc [PDF 10KB]

May 2001

• File No. 961 0031
  In the Matter of Pharmaceutical Pricing Investigation: Closing of Investigation
  • Text of Closing Letters [PDF 155KB]

Staff Closing Letters

April 2004

• General Electric Co./Vivendi Universal S.A., File No. 041 0010
  • Letter to Counsel for Vivendi Universal S.A.
  • Letter to Counsel for General Electric Company

March 2004

• Venable, Baetjer and Howard, LLP (March 3, 2004)

January 2003

• The Clorox Company (January 16, 2003)
• Longs Drug Stores Corp. (January 13, 2003)
• Rite Aid Corp (January 13, 2003)
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (January 13, 2003)

December 2002

• Compaq Computer Corp. (Hewlett-Packard Co.) (December 13, 2002

July 2002

• Tropicana Products, Inc. (July 15, 2002)

June  2002

• Commercial Alert Response Letter (June 27, 2002)
  • Attachment
• Nature's Way Products, Inc. (June 3, 2002)
• Center for Science in the Public Interest Response Letter (June 3, 2002)

May 2002

• Earthlink, Inc. (May 31, 2002)

November 2001

• Sun Microsystems, Inc. (November 9, 2001)

July 2001

• BWTDirect LLC (July 16, 2001) [PDF 51K]

May 2001

• Amazon.com and Alexa Internet (May 25, 2001) [PDF 112KB]
• FTC staff letter to EPIC and Junkbusters on Amazon.com, May 24, 2001)
  • Letter to staff from Amazon.com [PDF 1.1MB] (Exhibit A)
  • Petition from EPIC and Junkbusters (December 4, 2000)
  • Amazon.com Website Privacy Policy [PDF 387KB] (pre-Sept. 2000) (Exhibit B)
• priceline.com Incorporated (05/11/01) [PDF 82K]