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Software programmer criminally charged for hacking former employer's network

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2013

The federal Department of Justice recently filed criminal charges against a 41-year old software programmer and system manager who hacked into his

No damages? Illinois federal court tosses Computer Fraud and Abuse Act claim alleging hacking of law firm network

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2013

An Illinois federal court recently found in the favor of the defendant on a plaintiff's Computer Fraud and Abuse Act claim because the plaintiff

Customer list not secret enough

  • Sherman & Howard LLC
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 9 2013

An employer was unable to protect the confidentiality of its customer list, because it failed to present any evidence that the list was worthy of

Workplace confidentiality: more about insisting on privacy!

  • Stewart McKelvey
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  • Canada
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  • May 8 2013

The common law privacy right, or the tort of intrusion upon seclusion, arrived in Canada with Jones v. Tsige. That case arose when a bank employee

NLRB administrative law judge finds medical center’s technology usage policies violated employees rights under the National Labor Relations Act

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 6 2013

An NLRB Administrative Law Judge ("ALJ") has found that two computer usage policies of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ("UPMC") violated the

California Federal Court dismisses computer fraud and state unfair competition claims alleged against ex-employees accused of stealing computer source code

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 6 2013

A designer and marketer of stereophonic technology for presenting 3-D imaging on a computer screen recently sued some ex-employees in a California

Federal jury finds executive recruiter guilty stealing trade secrets from former employer in order to start competing business

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 1 2013

On April 24, 2013, a federal jury in the Northern District of California found former KornFerry International corporate executive recruiter, David

Loose lips sink... providers?

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2013

Can a medical corporation be directly liable under New York law for breaching its common law fiduciary duty of confidentiality when a non-physician

Plaintiff in dispute over LinkedIn account gets “zero” damages

  • Jackson Lewis LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 26 2013

Plaintiff pro se Linda Eagle, the former president of banking education company Edcomm, Inc. ended up empty handed even though she prevailed on the

California man convicted of hacking into former employer’s computer network

  • Haynes and Boone LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 25 2013

A jury in the Northern District of California has convicted David Nosal of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA") by accessing his