04:42 PM EDT, 04/15/2024 (MT Newswires) -- MGM Resorts International ( MGM ) filed Monday a lawsuit seeking an injunction to stop the US Federal Trade Commission's investigation into how the company handled a cybersecurity attack against MGM in September.

The company said the FTC violated its Fifth Amendment Rights when the commission denied its petition to recuse FTC Chair Lina Khan, who is personally involved and could be a potential plaintiff and witness because she was a guest at MGM's Las Vegas hotel during the attack.

"Chair Khan's personal involvement in the facts under investigation creates an appearance of a conflict of interest, and upon information and belief, an actual conflict of interest," it said.

MGM said it is also seeking to quash FTC's Civil Investigative Demand, or CID, which requires the company to produce voluminous information about the investigation.

"It is fundamentally contrary to the Fifth Amendment's guarantees of due process and equal protection for the FTC to subject MGM to an investigation premised on regulatory provisions that are inapplicable on their face," the company said.

The FTC did not immediately reply to MT Newswires' request for comment.