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Farmers have also been facing a vexing challenge on the ground: keeping chile grown outside New Mexico from being sold as homegrown, a deceptive practice that is common and hard to detect.

For Wyden, concealing the truth about data sharing in the fine print is a deceptive practice that's gone on too long.

This is not a 'promotional price'; it is a deceptive practice that has been allowed to continue for too long.

"It's a very unfair and deceptive practice that we don't think companies should be allowed to do".

The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint yesterday accusing AmeriDebt, a large service operating as a nonprofit credit counselor, of deceptive practices that masked high fees and connections to for-profit enterprises.

The Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act, signed into law last spring, was supposed to put an end to many of the deceptive practices that allowed credit card issuers to bleed customers dry.

Delaware's attorney general on Thursday accused Merscorp, which operates a national mortgage registry used by banks, of deceptive practices that hide information from borrowers.

Credit card companies would be barred from some retroactive interest rate hikes and other "unfair and deceptive" practices that cost consumers billions of dollars each year under a proposal by federal regulators Thursday.

That means outlawing the riskiest and most deceptive practices that were used to lure millions of people into loans that they could never hope to pay back.

"We cannot tolerate anticompetitive and deceptive practices that allow drug companies to fatten their bottom lines illegally at the expense of people who depend on this drug," Mr. Spitzer said.

In citing examples of the sort of "predatory, deceptive practices" that have turned the pedicab industry into "Midtown's Wild West," Councilman Daniel Garodnick used the experience of Brenda Rodriguez's family as Exhibit A. The family's 12-minute pedicab ride in Midtown Manhattan in August cost $442 — a sum that they reluctantly paid.