The US District Court froze the defendants' assets to preserve them for consumer redress pending trial.
The Commission may pursue such recovery in a suit for consumer redress under Section 19 of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. Sec.
Consumer Focus has also raised concerns about the lack of consumer redress, particularly for those who inherit a Green Deal.
The defendants settled the FTC's complaint by paying $1 million for consumer redress and agreeing not to make unsubstantiated claims in the future.
To settle the charges, defendants Sunny Health Nutrition Technology & Products, Inc. and its owner, Sunny Sia, agreed to pay $375,000 in consumer redress.
It is time we had a system of collective consumer redress.
The aim of this communication will be to consult publicly and widely on the options available in the field of consumer collective redress.
Another tool about which we have already talked is Dolceta, which is geared towards educating consumers, for example on distance selling and consumer redress.
The Commission is also in the process of considering whether an EU initiative on consumer collective redress is necessary and, if so, what type of initiative that should be.
The green paper on consumer collective redress proposed various ways of tackling this problem.