Federal Trade Commission v. Wyndham Worldwide Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the FTC has the authority, under § 45(a), to regulate companies’ data security and privacy practices
• explaining that “[the defendant] is only entitled to notice of the meaning of the statute and not to the agency’s interpretation of the statute”
• recognizing a difference between how an agency interprets ambiguous statutes and regulations and how a court might interpret those same sources
• stating that “given the novelty of [the legal issue presented], the Court finds that reasonable jurists may differ over the Court’s resolution” of the issue presented and, therefore, “a substantial ground for difference of opinion” existed
• upholding an FTC enforcement against a hotel chain that had extremely lax cybersecurity protecting its customers’ financial and personal identifying information
• upholding an FTC enforcement against a hotel chain that had extremely lax cybersecurity protecting its customers' financial and personal identifying information

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).