Exam 44: Consumer Protection

Homemade Soup Co. has advertised their soup in certain magazines using photographs showing bowls of their soup with pebbles at the bottom of the bowl. The pebbles were used to displace the soup in the bowl, forcing the vegetables and meat to the surface. This photographer's trick made the soup appear heartier than it was. An FTC staffer is thumbing through the latest edition of her favorite magazine. She notices the Homemade Soup Co. ad and goes to her kitchen, opens up a bowl of Homemade's soup and decides that her bowl of soup looks nothing like the one in the ad. What are the steps the FTC would take to proceed against Homemade Soup Co.?

The Home Equity Loan Consumer Protection Act:

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act is administered and enforced solely through two federal agencies: the SEC and FTC.

Which of the following acts protects consumers who have errors in credit card billings?

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration:

Remedies available to the FTC for violations of unfair and deceptive trade practices include:

Most lemon laws define a lemon as a car that:

Nathan borrows $1,250 to pay his son's medical bills. This is not a consumer credit transaction subject to the FCCPA since the loan is for a family member's services rather than for Nathan's personal purchase of goods.