Orkin Exterminating Company, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission

How courts have described this case

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• holding that exterminating company’s unilateral breach of lifetime guarantee for termite control was an unfair practice
• noting that there is nothing constraining the FTC “to follow judicial interpretations of state statutes in construing the agency’s section 5 authority”
• where party seeks to prove latent ambiguity, interpretation urged must be reasonable and resolve actual ambiguity, not create one
• determination of ambiguity of contract and of legal effect of unambiguous contract are questions of law that may be resolved summarily
• discussing both anticipatory and subse- quent mitigation
• discussing both anticipatory and subsequent mitigation

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