In a unanimous ruling last week, the Supreme Court stated that the FTC has limited powers. In Axon v. FTC and SEC v. Cochran, the highest court looked at the constitutionality of both the prosecutorial and judicial functions residing within the same agency.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced in a Statement of Commissioner Rohit Chopra that it will begin looking for other methods to seek restitution or disgorgement from companies in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the Commission could not do so using Section 13(b) of the FTC Act.