HomeAway.com, Inc. v. City of New York

  1. March 02, 2021

    Gibson Dunn Gets $600K Fee Award In HomeAway-NYC Spat

    A New York federal judge awarded Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP lawyers roughly $600,000 in attorney fees and costs Monday for their representation of a vacation rental company in its successful fight against a New York City rental ordinance law.

  2. December 15, 2020

    NYC Calls HomeAway's $1.5M Atty Fee Request 'Excessive'

    The city of New York on Tuesday pushed back on rental listing platform HomeAway's request for attorney fees in a dispute over a 2018 city ordinance requiring detailed monthly reports on home-share customers, saying the company's ask is "excessive."

  3. September 23, 2019

    Airbnb, NYC Spar Over Quick Win Bids In Data Ordinance Row

    Airbnb and HomeAway are refusing to back down in their bid to strike down an allegedly unconstitutional New York City ordinance requiring short-term rental platforms to hand over hosts' personal information, while the city is countering that "widespread illegality" on these platforms justifies the rule. 

  4. February 01, 2019

    NYC Taking Short-Term Rental Rule's Freeze To 2nd Circ.

    New York City is appealing before the Second Circuit a federal court decision blocking an ordinance requiring short-term rental platforms to hand over hosts' personal information, a law that Airbnb and HomeAway say violates the Fourth Amendment.

  5. January 03, 2019

    Airbnb, HomeAway Win Freeze To NYC Data Ordinance

    A New York federal court on Thursday blocked a New York City ordinance that would require short-term rental platforms to hand over hosts' personal information after Airbnb Inc. and HomeAway.com Inc. said the data collection is a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

  6. October 02, 2018

    NYC Short-Term Rental Rule Flouts Constitution, EFF Says

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, threw its support behind HomeAway and Airbnb on Monday in their related challenges to a New York City ordinance requiring short-term rental platforms to hand over hosts' personal information, telling a New York federal court the legislation violates the Fourth Amendment.

  7. September 05, 2018

    HomeAway Seeks To Enjoin NYC Short-Term Rental Rule

    HomeAway.com Inc. urged a federal judge to bar New York City from enforcing a new ordinance requiring short-term rental platforms to hand over hosts’ personal information while the court considers the vacation-rental website’s privacy-based challenge saying the company and its customers will be irreparably harmed otherwise.

  8. August 27, 2018

    HomeAway Cries Foul Over New NYC Short-Term Rental Law

    HomeAway.com Inc. hit New York City with a suit in federal court challenging a new ordinance requiring the vacation rental website to disclose private business records and hand over home-sharing hosts’ personal data, claiming the law violates the rights of the company and its users under both the U.S. and New York constitutions.