Last year, the FTC charged Google with deceptive practices related to its rollout of another social-networking service, Buzz.
Ms. Masto has alleged BofA engaged in deceptive practices that violated the law in its selling and servicing of mortgages.
Simply, there is no consumer benefit, competitive justification, or First Amendment free speech right to engage in deceptive practices for financial gain.
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Most would consider deceptive practices enabling criminal disregard for the health and safety of consumers for monetary gain to be unacceptable consumer harm.
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The Dodd bill creates for the first time effective federal authority to adopt rules banning unfair or deceptive practices wherever they may occur.
TaxMasters is the third heavily advertised tax fix-it service to go into bankruptcy and out of business after being sued for deceptive practices.
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One advisory is intended to make Capital One customers aware of the action and the other serves as a general warning to consumers who may encounter such deceptive practices.
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He was being sued for deceptive practices by Houston Monarch, a small oilfield services outfit that had tried to buy Baker Hughes' McMurry Oil Tools unit and use First Reserve as a lender.
The Republican alternative keeps in place huge legal obstacles that make it nearly impossible to ban unfair or deceptive practices by non-banks like mortgage brokers, payday lenders, auto lenders, et cetera, perpetuating an unfair advantage that these banks have over community banks, for example.
"Dell has engaged in repeated misleading, deceptive and unlawful business conduct, including false and deceptive advertising of financing promotions and the terms of warranties, fraudulent, misleading and deceptive practices in credit financing and failure to provide warranty service and rebates, " Justice Joseph C.
He was being sued for deceptive practices by Houston Monarch, a small oilfield services outfit that had tried to buy Baker Hughes (nyse: BHI - news - people )' McMurry Oil Tools unit and use First Reserve as a lender.
Claims that still stand against Interclick are deceptive business practices and trespass on a computer.
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As for deceptive sales practices that some customers and former employees say still continue, Scott Farmer loses his trademark grin.
Tiffany and Company alleges trademark infringement, counterfeiting, unfair competition, injury to business reputation, false advertising and deceptive business practices.
It was just one among 15 named by the Government Accountability Office in August 2010 on deceptive recruiting practices.
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In the lawsuit, Gifford claims that the USGBC has engaged in deceptive trade practices, false advertising and anti-trust in promoting the LEED certification program.
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Capital One Financial announced settlements with two bank regulators on Wednesday over deceptive marketing practices related to add-on products sold to credit card customers.
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Koch, a yachtsman who won the America's Cup in 1992, had accused Eric Greenberg of fraudulent misrepresentation, fraudulent concealment, deceptive business practices and false advertising.
If an Illinois business had engaged in similar conduct, it would have been subject to suit under both the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act and the Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
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By coincidence, the central bank on Monday approved a new rule designed to protect consumers from deceptive lending practices, including advertising practices that say interest rates are fixed when in fact they're not.
The Federal Trade Commission also helps ensure that companies are not engaging in deceptive advertising practices, but advertising restrictions are easily circumvented with creative marketing and wording that implies a specific health benefit.
It's most significant step: Several proposals in December that ban "unfair or deceptive" practices, such as lending to borrowers who cannot repay a loan and doing away with prepayment penalties that harm borrowers.
Thus did the fortunate Mr Hall find his champion, and the First Horizon Home Loan Corporation, a subsidiary of First Tennessee Bank, find itself charged under New York law with unlawful collection and deceptive business practices.
The 8, 000 or so plaintiffs who decided to sue after the class was dismantled still have to convince jurors that they were addicted to cigarettes, that tobacco caused their disease, and that they relied on deceptive marketing practices when they decided to smoke.
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No longer are consumers left alone to face the risk of unfair or deceptive or abusive practices -- not anymore.
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Unfair and deceptive acts and practices in the consumer finance market have left Americans facing foreclosure and debts they cannot bear.
He cites as an example the lack of regulations against deceptive and fraudulent practices in the home-mortgage industry in the past.
It was meant to protect people from deceptive credit card practices and to help keep college students from getting themselves into too much debt.
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"Unfair and deceptive acts and practices hurt not just borrowers and their families but entire communities, and indeed, the economy as a whole, " said Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.
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