Sentences with phrase «recent federal trade»

Monica Bay at The Common Scold has the heads - up on a recent Federal Trade Commission position paper giving its imprimatur to online lawyer / client matching services.

According to the most recent Federal Trade Commission survey, approximately 8.3 million Americans were victims of identity theft crimes, suffering collective out - of - pocket losses of about $ 15.6 billion.

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LONDON, May 3 - World stocks made little progress on Thursday as worries over global trade tensions weighed, while the U.S. dollar consolidated recent bumper gains after the Federal Reserve reaffirmed the outlook for more rate hikes.

U.S. Federal Trade Commission acting chairman Maureen Ohlhausen in a recent speech asked if enforcers were truly...

The packaging resembles that of juice boxes, candy or cookies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission said, noting a recent increase in the number of reports to poison control centers.

The federal government failed to make its case that something about trading stocks and bonds and derivatives has changed so fundamentally in recent times that Ottawa must now step in.

The Federal Trade Commission's has finally made a statement almost ten days after the public became aware of Facebook's recent privacy data breach regarding the -LSB-...]

SYDNEY, May 3 (Reuters)- Asian shares slipped on Thursday as hopes waned for real progress in Sino-U.S. trade talks, while the U.S. dollar consolidated recent bumper gains after the Federal Reserve reaffirmed the outlook for more rate hikes.

The day's trading was driven by uncertainty over how to interpret the Federal Reserve's recent policy statement as well as worries over talks in Beijing designed to avert a full - blown U.S. - China trade war.

U.S. stocks traded in record territory on Wednesday as the risk of persistently weak inflation hung over the Federal Reserve's most recent policy meeting.

Prolonged growth in the economy, statements and monetary moves by the Federal Reserve, and favorable geopolitical developments are seemingly needed to offset recent market volatility and lift equities beyond their trading range.

BEIJING Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan said on Tuesday he is quite hopeful that despite the recent trade skirmish between the United States and China, the rhetoric will de-escalate.

The Humane Society of the United States has filed supplemental complaints with both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Trade Commission regarding false and misleading statements being made by Seaboard Foods — the nation's third - largest pork producer and a supplier to Walmart — in response to a recent undercover investigation video of one of the company's Oklahoma pig breeding facilities.

The regulation is in response to the recent Equifax data breach, in which hackers gained access to sensitive personal information of an estimated 143 million American consumers, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

One of the most recent sources of this pressure was New Hampshire senator Maggie Hassan, who, with the support of Federal Trade Commission nominees, submitted a letter to the ESRB to take action against loot boxes.

Well, the news from the book promotion trenches just got even more frightening with the Federal Trade Commission's most recent decision.

According to a report filed in the New York Post citing unamed sources, Apple is set to face a federal inquiry from either the Department of Justice or the Federal Trade Commission, dependent on inter-agency negotiations regarding Apple's recent moves to ban Adobe's iPhone Flash - based iPhone app compiler in its latest developer terms of sfederal inquiry from either the Department of Justice or the Federal Trade Commission, dependent on inter-agency negotiations regarding Apple's recent moves to ban Adobe's iPhone Flash - based iPhone app compiler in its latest developer terms of sFederal Trade Commission, dependent on inter-agency negotiations regarding Apple's recent moves to ban Adobe's iPhone Flash - based iPhone app compiler in its latest developer terms of service.

Kim Posey of Fox31 interviews our Chad Gentry about the Federal Trade Commission's recent report on mistakes found on consumer credit reports.

Under the heading of «wow that was fast,» I've already received a response from the Federal Trade Commission to their recent loss in a Texas Federal Court in their case filed against Freedom Financial Processing, Debt Professionals...

But if you choose to use a debt settlement firm as a middleman, take note of a recent rule overhaul by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

WASHINGTON (August 17, 2010): The Association of Settlement Companies («TASC») announced today that its Board of Directors has voted to support the recent debt relief services rulemaking by the Federal Trade Commission («FTC»).

According to recent news articles, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has begun broader enforcement of the law for how a credit repair company operates its business and advertisements.

Since 2013, the subcommittee has orchestrated several successes and positive outcomes, some of which include: • Collaborating with the PIJAC Zoonosis committee to update the Healthy Herp Handling poster promoting healthy reptile and amphibian handling practices; develop the Zoonotic Disease Prevention Series for Retailers; draft informative store signage on how to prevent zoonotic diseases; participate in meetings on rodent and reptile disease transmission with the Centers for Disease Control; and produce and revise best management practices (BMP) documents; • Collaborating with the United States Association of Reptile Keepers on past and current attempts to pass legislation, ordinances, and regulatory activity that may impact herp ownership and related businesses; • Attending Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meetings with reports and summary of actions affecting import and export of reptiles; • Addressing the 2013 Center for Biological Diversity petition to list 53 herp species under the Endangered Species Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards in Ohio.

The most recent mystery shop study conducted by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found that national retailers enforced their store policies by refusing to sell M - rated video games to customers under the age of 17 87 % of the time.

After recent disclosures about potential Federal Trade Commission (FTC) violations within the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) community, Valve has come out with a statement about the matter, dismissing their involvement in the gambling sites as well as putting those sites on notice that their usage of the Steam API is against terms and conditions.

The state of Massachusetts is quietly reaping the benefits of cap and trade, the much - maligned process for curbing greenhouse gas emissions that federal lawmakers and many state governments resoundingly rejected in recent years.

The Federal Trade Commission's most recent major investigation found no evidence of such skullduggery, BTW.

Posts cover new trends in consumer class - action litigation as well as recent announcements from the Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Product Safety Commission and Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Division.

A recent decision Federal Court decision involving the manufacturer of Tupperware, Dart Industries Inc. v. Baker & McKenzie LLP, considered whether trade - mark use occurred when goods are purchased online using flyers.

As to the second question put before it — whether the most recent version of the draft of the federal Capital Markets Stability Act exceeded the authority of the Parliament of Canada over the general branch of the trade and commerce power under s. 91 (2) of the Constitution Act, 1867 — the Court of Appeal answered «no» to it as well.

Posts cover activities of the firm's lawyers, litigation tips, potential sources of tort litigation, Federal Trade Commission guidelines and recent class action decisions in California.

A recent ruling by the Federal Trade Commission found that claims made by a clothing manufactured that its clothes were made with bamboo fibers and were green products were misleading.

While Wallonia's opposition to the Canada - EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement has received considerable attention, a recent decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court shows that CETA faces more fundamental hurdles than most Canadian and European leaders are willing to acknowledge.

Manchester commercial litigation partner Dan Deane provided commentary in this article about the Federal Trade Commission's recent comments in support of the Federal Communications Commission's initiative to allow telephone providers to block illegal telemarketing robocalls.

Antitrust partners Aidan Synnott and Andrew C. Finch have authored a chapter surveying recent developments in antitrust - related enforcement actions of the United States Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission.

In a recent study the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found that junk debt buyers pay on average 4 cents on the dollar for the debts they file lawsuits on.

Recent data from the Federal Trade Commission found that more than 42 million Americans have errors on their credit reports.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is probing whether Facebook violated terms of a 2011 consent decree after the recent revelations that user data had been transferred to Cambridge Analytica without those users» knowledge, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The Federal Trade Commission confirmed on Monday that it has officially opened an investigation into Facebook following the company's recent Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.

Embroiled in scandal over a recent data privacy transgression, the Silicon Valley giant is being forced to revisit a consent decree it signed with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2011.

In a recent decision in a California federal court, the IRS succeeded in having Coinbase turn over personal information and trading activity of users who bought, sold, sent or received more than $ 20,000 through their accounts in a single year from 2013 to 2015.

The EFF announcement comes on the heels of two recent public criticisms of the patent system, one by the Federal Trade Commission and the other by the National Academy of Sciences.

Williams — who is running for governor in Georgia, which holds its vote this November — similarly praised the «cautious» approach being taken by federal regulators, citing recent actions from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in particular.

Due to a recent ruling by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), social media searches are allowed to be included in the background screening process.

In an October NFCC press release, a spokesperson for the NFCC stated that in recent years «identity theft has claimed more than 10 million victims per year, and has been the top complaint to the Federal Trade Commission for the last five years in a row.»

A recent featured article on Workforce.com — «Background Screening Firms Face Increased Scrutiny» — tells how background check firms are being watched more closely in the wake of a $ 2.6 million civil penalty against a leading screening firm by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).

A recent study conducted by WalletHub identifies the most and least «independent» states based on health - and wealth - related dependencies in five categories: «consumer finances,» such as credit scores and emergency savings; «government,» or federal funding; «international trade,» such as jobs supported by exported goods; «job market,» such as employer - offered retirement savings and the unemployment rate; and «personal vices,» such as drug use and gambling.