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New York district court permits CFAA case against ex-employee

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 27 2010

In Marketing Technology Solutions, Inc. v. Medizine LLC, 2010 WL 2034404 6-7 (S.D.N.Y. May 18, 2010) the court denied the defendant’s motion to dismiss the CFAA claim for stealing trade secrets from the company computer

Another district court dismisses a CFAA claim for failure to allege jurisdictional loss

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

Failure to allege proper "loss" under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA") continues to bedevil plaintiffs filing CFAA civil actions

Conn. district court refuses to dismiss computer fraud and abuse claims against ex-employee

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 12 2010

Without referencing the conflicting positions between LVRC Holdings LLC v. Brekka, 581 F.3d 1127, 1130-31 (9th Cir. 2009) and Int’l Airport Centers LLC v. Citrin, 440 F.3d 418, 420 (7th Cir.2006) a Connecticut federal district court refused to dismiss Computer Fraud and Abuse claims brought by an employer against an ex-employee

Sarah Palin hacker’s conviction stands for accessing her Yahoo email account

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 20 2010

The college student David C. Kernell who was convicted by a Chattanooga, Tennessee jury of various federal crimes including a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) for accessing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account will be sentenced on October 29, 2010

California court holds that an employee can be sued under the CFAA for deleting company files

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 17 2010

Without referring to its Circuit's controlling decision of LVRC Holdings LLC v. Brekka, 581 F.3d 1127, (9th Cir. 2009) , a federal district court in San Jose, California permitted a Computer Fraud and Abuse (“CFAA”) claim to proceed against an ex-employee for deleting files from her former employer’s computer

Nebraska court: the CFAA is not constitutionally vague

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

How do semi-nude photos, suicide and a possible decision by the US Supreme Court relate to a Nebraska decision handed down last month on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA")?

Privacy on your work computer?

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 8 2010

Can we expect any privacy when it comes to personal emails created at work?

Disgruntled employee lacked criminal intent to be sued for a civil violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

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

While the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA") permits seven causes of action to be brought by individuals or companies who have been victims of violations of the statute, practitioners lose sight of the fact that the CFAA is at its core a criminal statute

Tennessee court: the CFAA is not unconstitutionally vague

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 27 2010

While she is no longer a public official, former Governor Sarah Palin has unwittingly contributed to a Tennessee federal district court upholding the constitutionality of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA"

Investigating ways to make website more secure constitutes loss under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

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

A federal court in Ohio last week held that the cost of investigating ways to make a website more secure after an authorized access into the website in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA") constitutes "loss" to meet the $5,000 jurisdictional amount for loss under the CFAA

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