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Anti-corruption digest - February 2013

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 21 2013

U.S. District Judge Richard J. Sullivan of the Southern District of New York denied a motion to dismiss the SEC’s charges against three foreign

Narrow interpretation of CFAA’s jurisdictional “loss” requirement

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 26 2010

A district court in Illinois last week granted summary judgment to a defendant on a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA") claim by narrowly interpreting the jurisdictional "loss" prerequisite under the CFAA to require a showing that the computer was "impaired" or "suffered an interruption of service

Accenture employee faked medical leave to work for a competitor while stealing data from Accenture computers

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 29 2010

The recent case of Accenture, LLP v. Sidhu, 2010 WL 4691944 (N.D. Ca. Nov. 9, 2010) is a classic example of how the 9th Circuit’s holding in LVRC Holdings, LLC v. Brekka, 581 F.3d 1127, 1130-31 (9th Cir. 2009) has led to the dismissal of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) claims (or criminal counts) in circumstances in which an employee is clearly not authorized to access the company computers

How to prove “loss” for Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 11 2010

To bring a civil action based on the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA") a plaintiff must show that the alleged violation "caused . . . loss . . . aggregating at least $5,000 in value.”

Layne Christensen Company

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 24 2011

Layne Christensen is another company facing an investigation by a law firm that represents shareholders in class actions against publicly traded companies

Legal headhunter sued for stealing confidential data about the portability of partners’ law practices

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 15 2010

The legal recruiting business is not immune from Computer Fraud and Abuse Act lawsuits

Can you rely on your corporate computer policies to sue ex-employees who steal company data?

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 21 2010

Two recent district court opinions add to the caselaw providing judicial guidance on how employers might update their corporate computer policies to be able to sue ex-employees for stealing company data based on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA"), the federal computer crime statute

Holding passwords hostage international extortion foiled

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 19 2012

In a case recently filed by a Swiss company in federal court in Florida, the company alleged in its complaint that Jerome Westrick, its former computer programmer and minority shareholder, stole a company laptop, hacked into the company’s computer system, changed access codes and passwords, and locked out the company and its customers from getting into its enterprise content management software

Think you own your LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook account? Think again

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 3 2012

You may not, as reflected in the recently reported decision of Eagle v. Morgan, 2011 WL 6739448 (E.D. Pa. December 22, 2011) where both the employee and her former employer claim ownership in the employee’s LinkedIn account, the popular social networking site for business professionals

Ousama Naaman

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 20 2012

Ousama Naaman, a former agent for specialty chemical manufacturer Innospec Inc., has received a 30-month sentence and a $250,000 fine for paying bribes to Iraqi government officials to win contracts under the former United Nations Oil for Food Program

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