United States Tenth Circuit

In an action by the FTC to curtail Defendant's sale of confidential information and require it to disgorge profits, summary judgment for Plaintiff is affirmed where a practice may be "unfair" under the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTCA) even if it does not violate some law independent of the FTCA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/29/2009
• Published 06/29/2009

Judges

• HARTZ, Circuit Judge., Before HARTZ, TYMKOVICH, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Deborah L. Roden (Gay Woodhouse with her on the briefs) of Gay Woodhouse Law Office, P.C., Cheyenne, WY, for Defendants-Appellants., Lawrence DeMille-Wagman, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C., (William Blumenthal, General Counsel, John F. Daly, Deputy General Counsel for Litigation, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C.;   and Tracy S. Thorleifson, Kial S. Young, Federal Trade Commission, Seattle, WA, with her on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee., Edward R. McNicholas, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC, filed an amicus curiae brief for Jennifer Stoddart, Privacy Commissioner of Canada, in support of Plaintiff-Appellee.