The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 42 - AI in Criminal Justice: Opportunity or Opportunity for Misuse?
The Justice Insiders Podcast - Demystifying Sentences for White Collar Crimes: What's Next for SBF
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 31 - An Introspective Look at Bridgegate: Bill Baroni’s Journey
Life After Love Gone Wrong Podcast: Season 3, Episode 5 - Parallel Proceedings: The Intersection of Criminal Law and Family Law
How One Hospice Owner Got Convicted of Healthcare Fraud and How You Can Avoid That Fate
AGG Talks: Antitrust and White-Collar Crime Roundup - Developments in the Trump Indictments and Recent Supreme Court Issues
Law Brief®: Rich Schoenstein and Marie Pereira Discuss High-Profile Verdicts
Elizabeth Holmes, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 34]
Criminal Appeals from the Federal Public Defender’s Perspective | Matthew Wright | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Law Brief®: Michael Grudberg, Robert Heim and Richard Schoenstein Discuss the Theranos Verdict
Extraordinary Writs in Criminal Cases | Michael Falkenberg | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Revisiting McGirt: New Legal Developments Challenge Oklahoma’s Landmark Ruling
Argentina: A Look at the Case of Lázaro Báez - Laundering the Proceeds of Corruption and Tax Fraud
Court of Appeals Reversals from a Criminal Perspective | Jim Huggler | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
From the Trial Bench to the Court of Criminal Appeals | Judge Bert Richardson | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
The Immediate and Lasting Impacts of McGirt: A Novel Ruling for Oklahoma
Stare Decisis and Advocacy in the Court of Criminal Appeals | Judge David Newell | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Dewey Bozella on His Wrongful Conviction
High at Work? Key Considerations for NYS Employers Regarding Legal Adult-Use Marijuana
Washington Post Journalist Jason Rezaian on His Iranian Imprisonment
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It’s not every day the U.S. Supreme Court issues an opinion relevant to this blog, so we are understandably excited when it does. In a landmark decision, the Court has ruled that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA),...more
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Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following decision: Mays v. Hines, No. 20-507: A Tennessee jury convicted respondent Anthony Hines of murdering a woman at the motel at which she worked. Decades...more
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in Van Buren v. United States, which asked the nine Justices to interpret the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1030. The CFAA was enacted in 1986, just...more
Working from home since the onset of the pandemic, you check your social media on a work laptop, in violation of your company’s Acceptable Use Policy. Have you just committed a federal crime?...more
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For the first time, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken up a case involving the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), 18 U.S.C. § 1030. In United States v. Van Buren, the court will address the question of whether an...more
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In the wake of a 5-4 circuit court split, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari to review the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and specifically whether a person who is authorized to access...more
On Monday, April 20th, the Supreme Court accepted cert in Van Burien v. United States to (hopefully) resolve a longstanding circuit split regarding the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (or CFAA): Does an individual exceed...more
Recently, the United States Supreme Court added United States v. Van Buren to its merits docket for next term. The Court will seek to resolve a circuit-split over whether a person who is authorized to access information on a...more
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For the first time, the Supreme Court has agreed to review the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The Court’s initial review of the CFAA comes in the wake of a federal circuit split as to whether the statute can only be...more
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On April 20, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up a case involving the scope of liability under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a federal statute that creates criminal penalties and a civil cause of...more