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Little Falls Village Presents: Federal Trade Commission

A Virtual Event

Join us for Everything You Wanted to Know about the FTC But Were Afraid to Ask with Barry Cutler, former supervising attorney with the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection & Assistant General Counsel.

Join us for Everything You Wanted to Know about the FTC But Were Afraid to Ask with Barry Cutler, former supervising attorney with the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection and Assistant General Counsel. Barry was a judicial law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan from 1968 to 1970. He then returned to New Haven as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (federal prosecutor) from 1970 to 1974. During that time, he also was an adjunct faculty member and taught a trial practice seminar at the Yale Law School. In 1974 he moved to Washington D.C. and worked with the FTC for 4 years. Since 1978 Barry was a partner in three law firms handling litigation and consumer protection counseling. From 1990-1993 Barry served as Director of the FTC’s Consumer Protection Bureau and served as the U.S. Representative to the Consumer Protection Directorate of the OECD in Paris. Barry retired in 2019.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) along with the SEC and CPSC, is one of several alphabet soup agencies that are called” Independent Agencies.” Why are some of these agencies” independent” while others like the EPA, CDC, FDA, & FEMA are not “independent”? Is it truly independent, as its classification implies, or does it work with other independent agencies and/or non-independent agencies? Who provides oversight over the FTC? How does the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection help the consumer? What are some of their most challenging issues?

This program is free and open to all and is presented as a collaboration between the Little Falls Library and Little Falls Village.

Registration is required. Please register at www.littlefallsvillage.org/FTC or by calling the Little Falls Village office at 301-320-3267.

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