FTC: Watch articles from July 2000

FTC: Watch archives from July 2000

Eye on Capitol Hill : OMB says House FY2001 appropriations bill shortchanges the FTC and the Antitrust Division.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... President Clinton's senior advisers have advised the President to veto the House Commerce, Justice, State, Judiciary, and Related Agencies appropriations FY2001 bill (H.R. 4690) in its current form, according to a June 22 Office of Management...

House hearing on 2 bills to mandate cable internet open access.
July 24, 2000... "Despite the rhetoric, legislative exemptions from the 1996 Telecommunications Act are harmful to the goal of competition." National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners "It is in the public interest to have more competition in...

House set to follow Senate lead, settle for narrow electricity reliability bill.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... Once again, the House Commerce Committee did not mark up the Electricity Competition and Reliability Act of 1999 (H.R. 2944) as planned last week. As reported last issue, Committee Chairman Tom Bliley (R-Va.) and the bill's sponsor, Energy...

New House bill gives FTC new authority to fight spam.(bulk unsolicited e-mail )(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... Last week, the House overwhelmingly (427-1) passed the first federal legislation to hold e-mail marketers accountable for bulk unsolicited e-mail (spam). If adopted, the FTC will be primarily responsible for enforcing the "Unsolicited...

New FTC Report on electricity deregulation : FTC staff advises Arkansas to monitor electricity market power.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... The Arkansas Public Service Commission should periodically check whether their proposed Staff Standard Service Package (SSP) Guidelines remain necessary in areas where a utility and its affiliates do not have market power, FTC Economic Bureau...

Pitofsky on choice of law in international e-commerce.(FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky)(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... Two of the three different proposed legal frameworks for determining whose national laws apply in cross-border online transactions would not provide adequate consumer protections, FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky told the ABA's 2000 meeting in...

U.S signs eighth bilateral antitrust accord - this time with Mexico.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... The U.S. and Mexico signed a first generation bilateral antitrust cooperation agreement in Mexico City on July 11 -- similar to agreements with the European Union (EU), Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan, and Brazil. It differs from the second...

FTC and Australian counterpart sign two consumer protection agreements.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... The FTC and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) signed two bilateral consumer protection agreements, last week. The first "FTC-ACCC Cooperation Agreement" requires the FTC and ACCC to use their "best efforts" to: (a)...

Swindle: Global B2Bs will not survive without confidence in e-commerce.(FTC Commissioner Orson Swindle)(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... The promise of a global B2B, e-commerce marketplace will not be fulfilled unless trust via international business standards is created and guaranteed, FTC Commissioner Orson Swindle opined at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce forum on July 20. ...

Kid Web sites warned to comply with COPPA.(Children's Online Privacy Protection Act)(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... You must comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) if you collect personal information from kids under 13, the FTC informed scores of Web sites via e-mail -- after FTC staff were disappointed by low COPPA compliance...

FTC likes Senate identity theft bill, plans a public workshop in the fall.(Identity Fraud Protection Act of 2000)
July 24, 2000... The FTC supports the Identity Fraud Protection Act of 2000 (S. 2328) that provides the agency with more tools to combat identity theft, FTC Consumer Protection Bureau Chief Joan Z. Bernstein testified before the Senate Technology, Terrorism...

FTC to Senate on Living Trust scams.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... "Con artists often prey on older Americans' concerns that their estates will be subject to long and costly probate and misrepresent the costs and benefits of living trusts versus wills," FTC Consumer Protection Bureau Enforcement Division...

FTC solicits technical demos for Internet Franchise Rule.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... The Commission is inviting proposals from companies to show how they would comply, via the Internet, with the agency's Franchise Rule. Last October, the Commission published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on revising the Franchise Rule...

Telemarketing Rule forum set for July 27-28.(Telemarketing Sales Rule public forum)(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... The FTC will hold a two-day Telemarketing Sales Rule public forum on July 27-28 to review how well the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) is keeping up with commerce in the global information age. Subjects to be addressed include: (a) the...

Democratic and GOP enforcement - does it make a difference at the FTC?(study by Malcolm B. Coate)
July 24, 2000... Excluding the Reagan Administration years in the 1980's, the differences between merger enforcement during the last three Republican and Democratic FTCs appear to be subtle, but important according to a study by FTC Economist Malcolm B....

2nd Circuit says Noerr-Pennington doesn't block Primetime 24's suit.(Satellite Home Viewers Act)(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... The Satellite Home Viewers Act (SHVA), 17 U.S.C. Section 119 (1995), allows television networks and stations to challenge direct broadcast satellite operators for copyright infringement in some cases, but it sure as hell doesn't allow them to...

Justice Department unravels, wraps up radio mergers in markets nationwide.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... In its own version of "radio days," the Antitrust Division has continued its close attention this summer to mergers and acquisitions in the radio industry. To wit: * Clear Channel-AMFM monster deal Well, if not a monster, at least it...

Michigan radio deal remedied.(Citadel Communications buying stations from Liggett Broadcast Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... Citadel Communications will divest three central Michigan radio stations rather than see its acquisition of stations from Liggett Broadcast Inc. killed. Citadel would have acquired three stations in the Saginaw, Michigan market, a market in...

Kansas City radio deal OK'd as restructured.(Entercom Communications Corp. buying 4 stations from Sinclair Broadcast Group)(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... Entercom Communications Corp.'s agreement to sell three Kansas City radio stations to Susquehanna Radio Corp. has smoothed the way to the company's acquisition of four stations from Sinclair Broadcast Group. Entercom currently owns seven...

Klein on Worldcom/Sprint fizzle: Good.
July 24, 2000... "We welcome this decision to abandon the transaction. The merger would have led to higher prices, lower service quality, and less innovation for millions of American consumers and businesses. America's consumers and businesses will continue...

NY food supplier accused of $2.4 million bid-rig to public agencies.(Jitney Ltd defrauded New York City's Department of Citywide Administrative Services, the Newark Public Schools, and the Nassau County General Services Department)
July 24, 2000... Jitney Ltd, a Richmond Hill, N.Y. food supplier, conspired with competitors to rig bids on food contracts -- mainly produce -- awarded by New York City's Department of Citywide Administrative Services, the Newark Public Schools, and the...

Florida hospitals can attest -- Violate a merger decree at your peril.(Morton Plant Hospital Association and Mease Hospital, found guilty in violation of a 1994 decree)(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... "Repeated and widespread" and admitted violations of a 1994 consent decree have prompted the Department of Justice and the State of Florida to slap Morton Plant Hospital Association and the Trustees of Mease Hospital with an Enforcement Order...

Swindle dissents: this is not a privacy case -- Online Pharmacies settle FTC charges they misused consumer information.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... "We should not transform every case involving a false claim as to how personal information will be used into a case warranting the imposition of privacy requirements." Commissioner Orson Swindle A group of online pharmacies plugging...

Third-party debt collector to pay $250,000 to settle FDCPA charges.(North American Capital Corp)(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... North American Capital Corporation (NACC) will pay $250,000 to resolve FTC allegations that it violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) by employing illegal methods when collecting delinquent consumer credit accounts. The...

FTC & buddies flex muscles as prize fighters against fraud.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... The FTC and friends have used a coordinated law enforcement effort, "Project Prize Fighter," to produce 24 prize promotion fraud law enforcement actions against more than 40 defendants in 9 states. The FTC sought and obtained temporary...

Subprime lender settles HOEPA, TILA charges.(Nu West Inc and Georg Frey)(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... A "subprime" lender and its principal will pay $160,000 consumer redress to settle FTC charges that violated the Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act (HOEPA), the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), and the FTC Act when making high-cost loans to...

FTC wants Rexall Sundown to shed some Cellasene $$.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... Rexall Sundown, Inc. made false and unsubstantiated claims while marketing its cellulite treatment, Cellasene, the FTC alleged in a law suit filed in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, on July 19. Contrary to claims...

Dominion applies to divest Va. Natural Gas.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... Dominion Resources, Inc. & Consolidated Natural Gas Company (CNG) asked for FTC approval to divest CNG's subsidiary Virginia Natural Gas Company, Inc. (VNG) to AGL Resources Inc. (AGL) -- as required under a November 5 FTC order setting...

Exxon Mobil's pipeline divestiture OK'ed.(Colonial Pipeline Company and Colonial Ventures L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... The FTC OK'ed Exxon Mobil Corp.'s application to divest Mobil Pipe Line Company's interest in Colonial Pipeline Company and Colonial Ventures, L.L.C. (Colonial). Colonial will repurchase Mobil's interests. Thomas B. Leary recused. ...

ARCO's Cushing divestiture approved.(Atlantic Richfield Company's (ARCO) Cushing Oklahoma assets)(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... The Commission approved the divestiture of Atlantic Richfield Company's (ARCO) Cushing Oklahoma assets to the Texas Eastern Products Pipeline Company (TEPPCO). An April 12 order with BP-Amoco and ARCO required them to divest, with the...

Haemacure gains another year to obtain FDA approvals.(to manufacture Fibrin Sealant for sale in the U.S.)(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... The trustee overseeing the divestiture process for Baxter International's acquisition of Immuno International AG, asked and got the FTC's permission to grant Haemacure Corp. an extra 12 months from June 28 to obtain all necessary FDA...

Calendar.
July 24, 2000... July 27 - Commissioner Orson Swindle will address a workshop concerning consumer privacy issues at the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council; San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina, 333 West Harbor Drive, San Diego; 11:00...

Berkeley University Economic Professor and former Federal Communications Commission Chief Economist Joseph V. Farrell.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... Berkeley University Economic Professor and former Federal Communications Commission Chief Economist Joseph V. Farrell is the new Antitrust Division Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis. Farrell replaces Timothy Bresnahan...

Former FTC Competition Bureau Deputy Director Will Tom.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... Former FTC Competition Bureau Deputy Director Will Tom has joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius as a partner in the Antitrust Group. Prior to his FTC stint, Tom served as Counselor to the Antitrust Division Assistant Attorney General and helped...

Michael S. McFalls.(leaving FTC, returning to Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue)(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... Michael S. McFalls, an attorney advisor to FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky has left the agency to rejoin Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue as an associate in the Antitrust & Trade Regulation Practice, Washington office.

FTC Economics Bureau Deputy Director for Antitrust Greg Vistnes.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... FTC Economics Bureau Deputy Director for Antitrust Greg Vistnes is leaving at the end of July for the consulting firm Charles River Associates.

FTC Consumer Protection Bureau Director Jodie Bernstein.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2000... FTC Consumer Protection Bureau Director Jodie Bernstein is a winner of the 3rd-annual Good Housekeeping Women In Government Award for her "efforts to reduce online fraud." The award recognizes ten remarkable women who have improved the lives...

Commissioners override staff, vote to block Beech-Nut sale.(H.J. Heinz Co.)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Overriding the recommendations of its staff economists and antitrust lawyers, the Commissioners voted 3-2 on July 7 to send the same staff members into federal court to try to block H.J. Heinz's acquisition of Milnot Holding Co. While...

Gore asks FTC to conduct its midwest gasoline investigation in public.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Vice President Albert Gore, Jr. asked the FTC to conduct its Midwest price gas investigation in public, during a June 29 campaign stop in Chicago. FTC officials avoided responding directly, but repeated that the agency is investigating...

DeWine/Kohl bill would remove OPEC antitrust immunity.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Senate Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) and Ranking Member Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.) are gathering cosponsors for the "No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act" (NOPEC/ S.2778), legislation that would allow the Antitrust...

Comprehensive electricity deregulation : No Senate bill this year; House bill facing gridlock.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Frank H. Murkowski (R-Alaska) has placed his comprehensive electricity deregulation bill on the back burner and settled for sponsoring Senator Slade Gorton's (R-Wash.) narrow electricity reliability...

FTC still learning about B2B issues.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... The FTC remains in learning mode about Business to Business (B2B) exchanges, said FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky and FTC Policy Planning Director Susan DeSanti at the jam-packed B2B workshop in Washington, DC on June 29 and 30. The issues...

Leary discusses recent FTC enforcement actions & future of distribution law.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Two recent FTC enforcement actions may weigh heavily upon distribution law, said FTC Commissioner Thomas B. Leary at a Distribution and Dealer Termination forum in New York on June 26. They are the consent orders with five major...

Standard-setting in network industries.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... The Commission will attach increased significance to analyzing standard-setting in evolving technologies of network markets because they can create strong network effects, FTC Competition Bureau Senior Deputy Director Molly Boast, told the...

E.U.'s Monti asks US to agree on broad international competition agenda.(Competition Commissioner Mario Monti)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... European Union Competition Commissioner Mario Monti has urged U.S. antitrust enforcers to agree on four core international competition principles so that the World Trade Organization (WTO) can monitor them through a peer review mechanism...

FTC Appliance Labeling Rule celebrates its 20th birthday.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... It's the Appliance Labeling Rule's 20th birthday and a new FTC Website section -- www.ftc.gov/ appliances -- offers appliance energy related information for consumers, manufacturers and dealers. The Rule requires appliance manufacturers...

FTC again asks Congress to give cigarette testing mission to others.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... In two recent FTC reports to Congress -- "Tar, Nicotine, and Carbon Monoxide of the Smoke of 1,294 Varieties of Domestic Cigarettes for 1998"; and "Cigarette Sales and Advertising for 1998"--the Commission has again asked Congress to think...

Merger watch.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Merger watch: Senate Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) and Ranking Member Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.) say they are troubled by the increasing consolidation in the entertainment and media industries and particularly by Vivendi's...

Zeneca Agrochemicals.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Zeneca Agrochemicals recently announced plans to divest its worldwide acetochlor corn herbicide business to address FTC and European Commission concerns over its proposed formation of Syngenta. Zeneca said last December 2 that it would form...

Cozy telecommunications industry.(AT and T Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Cozy telecommunications industry: The Associated Press reported June 30 that the Washington State Utilities and Transportation Commission had released a copy of an agreement between AT&T on one side and U S West Communications Inc. and Qwest...

Advertising costs.(Quigley Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Advertising costs: The Quigley Corp. announced June 21 that second quarter sales wouldn't meet its predicted $2.3 million, but would be only "approximately $1.4 million." Quigley said, "The decreases reflected the impact of the FTC's...

The ultimate insult.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... The ultimate insult: According to Britain's Financial Times, the U.S. and British governments are discussing the possibility of extending a 1994 criminal assistance agreement to include cartels. Lumping coat-and-tie price-fixers in with drug...

Campbell's victory.(legislator Tom Campbell, pushes health care bill)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Campbell's victory: Rep. Tom Campbell (R-Cal.), once upon a time director of the FTC's Competition Bureau, has successfully shepherded his bill to allow physicians to bargain collectively with insurance companies without actually forming a...

Pre-recorded music class actions.(case of illegal resale price of compact discs)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Pre-recorded music class actions: a second shoe has dropped in Florida. Following the FTC's settlement of illegal resale price maintenance allegations against the major recording companies, private lawyers in Florida, led by Florida Bar...

Internet privacy class actions.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Internet privacy class actions: The June 28 issue of The Recorder reports that several plaintiffs' firms, including Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, are cranking up law suits against DoubleClick Inc., Amazon.com Inc., RealNetworks Inc....

Scarce Internet shelf-space.
July 10, 2000... Scarce Internet shelf-space: Rare Needleman, who runs the online site Red Herring. com, says in the July 1 a edition that, while "there are countless great sites that people will probably never see," [t]he search engines have a capitalistic...

Microsoft: takes one to know one?(software company gets the boot in China)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Microsoft: takes one to know one? The New York Times reports (July 6) that the government of the People's Republic of China (aka PRC or "commies") have decided that it doesn't want a Microsoft monopoly that could threaten the state's...

Big Brother.(wired magazine reports spying by several government agencies)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Big Brother, as we might have known, is more than a TV show, more than George Orwell's novelistic creation. It's here. "Wired" magazine says it decided to snoop on U.S. government web sites to see if the sites are snooping on us. Yes, they...

News you can use.(H.J. Heinz announces the introduction of a new ketchup)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... News you can use: "In a move to raise sales of its ketchup, H.J. Heinz plans to introduce a new version today that will be bright green and is intended to appeal to children." - New York Times, July 10

High-tech fiberoptic merger allowed -- as restructured.(JDS Uniphase and E-TEK Dynamics Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... JDS Uniphase may complete its proposed $15 billion merger with E-TEK Dynamics Inc. as long as the firms sell their rights to purchase a key input to fiber optic components in order to resolve the Department's antitrust concerns involving...

OKs for three fishing allocation plans.(Alaskan Pollock fishing and processing markets)
July 10, 2000... UniSea Fleet Cooperative members will be able to allocate fish catches among themselves -- specifically Alaskan Pollock-- with the determination by the Antitrust Division that their joint harvesting proposal would not substantially lessen...

WorldCom/Sprint Merger nixed.(union would have broken antitrust laws)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... No surprise to anyone except possibly the parties was the U.S. government's foray into federal court to block the merger of WofidCom Inc. and Sprint Corporation. The deal -- between two of the three largest U.S. telecommunications companies...

Waste Collection merger OK'd as restructured.(Allied Waste Collection Industries and Republic Services Inc. get the nod from the government)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Allied Waste Collection Industries and Republic Services Inc. can go ahead with a multi-million dollar asset exchange now that they have agreed to meet DOJ's requirement to sell off some waste collection and disposal assets and make contract...

Evansville Indiana bank divestiture resolve competitive concerns for Department Of Justice.(Old National Bank )(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Old National Bank will sell approximately $42.5 million in deposits in two branches in Evansville, Indiana in order to resolve antitrust concerns about the company's pending merger with Permanent Bank. The company will sell two Permanent...

New deputy AAG for economic analysis.(Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Joseph Farrell)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Joseph V. Farrell has taken over as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for economic analysis, the Antitrust Division announced last week~ Farrell, a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, has been Chief Economist...

After Microsoft wins.(humor in the courtroom)(Humor)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... July 7, 2002. In a stunning reversal, the U.S. Supreme Court has handed Microsoft a complete victory in its landmark antitrust case. By a 5-4 vote, Justice Scalia dismissed all charges and called Microsoft "a genuine American success story...

Pfizer Inc., Warner-Lambert will divest four major assets.(requirements for their final merging)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Warner-Lambert will divest its Alzheimer's drag, Cognex, assets and stop co-promoting the antidepressant drug Celexa; and Pfizer will sell its RID head-lice treatment business and a promising cancer drag under development to win the FTC's...

FTC asks federal court to block Swedish Match-National Tobacco merger.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... The FTC will ask a federal district court to issue a preliminary injunction to prevent Swedish Match AB's proposed $165 million acquisition of National Tobacco Company, L.P. The agency expressed concerned that the deal would reduce...

3 major retailers to disclose hidden costs of "free" PCs.(BUY. COM, Value America, and Office Depot to tell it like it is by orders of the federal bosses)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... BUY. COM, Value America, and Office Depot will clearly and conspicuously disclose total costs of computer systems and related products and services to settle FTC allegations that they misrepresented the terms of sale for "free" and "low-cost"...

Swindle dissents over use for research : FTC slices $1 million fins off shark cartilage cure-all marketers.(Federal Trade Commission)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Lane Labs-USA, Inc., Cartilage Consultants, Inc. and their principals will not make unsubstantiated health-related claims about food, drag and dietary supplements to settle FTC charges that they fraudulently plugged shark cartilage products...

Touch Tone settles pretexting charges -- Swindle: collecting private financial data did not violate FTC Act.(Touch Tone Information Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Touch Tone Information Inc., an "information broker" has agreed to post quality online privacy policies and to protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of personal information collected, settling FTC charges that the firm used...

Cigar companies add health warnings.(by orders of the Federal Trade Commission, explicit labels are to be placed on their products)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Seven U.S. cigar companies comprising 95% of the US cigar market will include strong warnings about the health risks of cigar use in their ads and packaging to settle FTC allegations that their failure to do so amounted to deceptive and...

FTC, friends target advance fee loan scams.(consumer fraud )(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... The FTC and state law enforcers have launched "Operation Advance Fee Loan 2000," following up on similar sweeps in 1996, 1997 and 1999. The FTC's Consumer Sentinel consumer fraud database has received more than 4,200 consumer complaints...

FTC tackles more alleged credit card "protection" schemes.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Some Canadian and U.S. telemarketers may find new lines of work to settle FTC allegations that they violated the FTC Act and Telemarketing Sales Rule by falsely promoting redundant credit card insurance services. A stipulated final order...

Pre-paid phone card biz op dealers to post performance bonds.(Telecard Dispensing Corp)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Two of five defendants named in the FTC's 1998 lawsuit against Telecard Dispensing Corp. of Hollywood will stop selling business opportunities and post performance bonds to settle FTC charges that they deceptively sold prepaid phone card...

Five Star Auto Club down $2.9 Million & barred from multi-level marketing.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... U.S. District Court Judge Colleen McMahon has ordered Five Star Auto Club, Inc., and its principals, Michael and Angela Sullivan, to conclude their multilevel marketing business permanently and hand over $2.9 million for consumer redress, at...

Most North Chicago car dealers complying with Used Car Rule.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... FTC and Illinois investigators have found approximately one-third of 14 used car dealers in North Chicago to be out of compliance with the FTC's Used Car Rule and state consumer protection laws. Of the 637 cars surveyed, 151 had no Buyers...

ExxonMobil applies to divest Guam assets.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... ExxonMobil has applied for Commission approval to divest Exxon's Guam assets -- as required by Paragraphs IIIA- IIIC in the November consent agreement -- to South Pacific Petroleum Corp. The assets are currently held by Exxon Mobil's...

Duke & Phillips apply to divest assets.(Duke Energy Corp.,)(Duke Energy Field Services, L.L.C,)(Phillips Petroleum)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2000... Duke Energy Corp., Duke Energy Field Services, L.L.C. and Phillips Petroleum applied for the FTC nod to divest the Schedules C-J assets listed in their FTC divestiture order to Oneok Gas Processing, L.L.C. Send comments to the Office of...

The following orders are final.
July 10, 2000... Efamol Nutraceuticals, Inc. File No. 992-3027 Contact: Matthew Gold, 415-356-5276 Zim Textile Corporation File No. 002-3082 Contact: Carol Jennings, 202-326-3010 Service Corporation International File No. 981-0108 Contact:...

Calendar.
July 10, 2000... July 17 - FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky will participate in an ABA 2000 London Plenary Session, "The Jurisdiction of Cyberspace: Achieving Legal Order among the World's Nations," Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, London July 18 -...