[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 21 (Friday, January 31, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4770-4771]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-2449]
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
[Dkt. C-3668]
Sherman G. Smith; Prohibited Trade Practices, and Affirmative
Corrective Actions
agency: Federal Trade Commission.
action: Consent Order.
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summary: In settlement of alleged violations of federal law prohibiting
unfair or deceptive acts or practices and unfair methods of
competition, this consent order prohibits, among other thins, a Utah-
based individual doing business as Starr Communications from
misrepresenting, in advertisements for a work-at-home business, the
income, earnings, or sales from any business opportunity and prohibits
any claims concerning past, present, or future earnings unless, at the
time of making the representation, it possesses competent and reliable
evidence to substantiate the claim.
dates: Complaint and Order issued June 12, 1996.\1\
\1\ Copies of the Complaint and the Decision and Order are
available from the Commission's Public Reference Branch, H-130, 6th
Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580.
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for further information contact: Nicholas Franczyk, Federal Trade
Commission, Chicago Regional Office, 55 East Monroe St., Suite 1860,
Chicago, IL 60603. (312) 353-8156.
supplementary information: On Monday, April 1, 1996, there was
published in the Federal Register, 61 FR 14322, a proposed consent
agreement with analysis In the Matter of Sherman
[[Page 4771]]
G. Smith, for the purpose of soliciting public comment. Interested
parties were given sixty (6) days in which to submit comments,
suggestions or objections regarding the proposed form of the order.
No comments having been received, the Commission has ordered the
issuance of the complaint in the form contemplated by the agreement,
made its jurisdictional findings and entered an order to cease and
desist, as set forth in the proposed consent agreement, in disposition
of this proceeding.
(Sec. 6, 38 Stat. 721; 15 U.S.C. 46. Interprets or applies sec. 5,
38 Stat. 719, as amended; 15 U.S.C. 45)
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-2449 Filed 1-30-97; 8:45 am]
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