Revisions that would restrict crematories from doing basic tasks necessary to run a retail business. FCA has opposed these. 

FCA's letter protesting changes to funeral board regulations that would put direct-to-consumer low-cost crematories out of business. 

Agreement that the state of PA recognizes it does not have the right to regulate or interfere with religious persons or communities who care for their own dead privately without hiring a funeral home. 

A letter responding to the OFDA's charges that FCA was telling a "vicious LIE" when we called out OFDA's attempt to compromise the consumer-protection mission of the state regulatory board. 

Commentary from 1993 from the Federal Trade Commission suggesting that allowing funeral home/cemetery combinations might bring competition for the good of consumers. After two decades of watching combination businesses take advantage of consumers we suspect the FTC might come to a different conclusion today. 

A 2012 bill to overturn the ban on funeral home/cemetery combination businesses. 

Bill restores families' rights to care for their own dead; eliminates Minnesota's requirement to embalm bodies that are on public view.

The US District Court's ruling granting summary judgment for FCA (ending Thomas Lynch's libel suit against FCA).

FCA delivered this testimony to the House Sub-Committee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection on July 27, 2009. We asked lawmakers to expand the FTC Funeral Rule to cover cemeteries, to set national standards for cemetery regulation, and to require complete deposit and consumer-right-of-refund for all prepaid cemetery and funeral money nationwide.

FCA\'s  letter to Colorado lawmakers urging amendments to HB 1202, a 2009 bill that would outlaw private, family-directed funerals and shut down price competition in the funeral business.

 

A flawed bill that would restrict funeral consumer choices and shut down competition.

Legal analysis from FCA on Bibb County, Georgia\'s, ban on green cemeteries.

Thomas (Tom) Lynch\'s defamation lawsuit against Funeral Consumers Alliance.