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“So” What? SCOTUS Adopts Narrow Interpretation Of CFAA

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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

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

SCOTUS Decision Significantly Impacts Data Operations For U.S. Businesses

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision Van Buren v. United States on June 3, 2021 that has broad implications for technology companies writ large. With its decision, the Court has restricted the scope and application of the...more

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SCOTUS Case Highlights Ambiguities in Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

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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

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Once more unto the breach: The Supreme Court weighs in on a circuit split on what constitutes a hack

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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Criminal Enforcement Against Data Breaches Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

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On April 20, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court granted writ of certiorari in Van Buren v. United States to consider whether a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes violates Section...more

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U.S. Supreme Court to Weigh in on Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for the First Time

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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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

SCOTUS Review of CFAA May Impact Analysis in Data Breach Notification Obligations

For the first time, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) in Van Buren v. United States, No. 19-783. A federal circuit split exists on the issue of whether the statute can only be...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Set for Initial Supreme Court Review

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

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Prison Time for Personal Use of Company Computers? Supreme Court Grants Cert to Decide Whether Noncompliance With a Company’s...

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

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SCOTUS Set to Resolve Circuit Split and Decide Scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Prosecutions

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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

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Supreme Court Grants Certiorari to Review Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Prohibition on "Exceeding Authorized Use"

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA") is a Federal criminal statute intended to protect government and other "protected computers" from hacking.  Among other things, the CFAA serves as the basis for punishing anyone who...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

U.S. Supreme Court Case Preview—Van Buren v. United States: Does Use of a Computer for an “Improper Purpose” Violate the Computer...

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

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Supreme Court To Consider Reach Of Computer Fraud And Abuse Act

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When a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes accesses the information for another, improper purpose, does that amount to a federal crime? The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

The Officer, the Informant, and the FBI: The CFAA Makes First Trip To The Supreme Court Of The United States

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The Supreme Court has granted certiorari in its first Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) case, Van Buren v. United States. CFAA is the federal anti-hacking law that the criminal defense and civil liberties bars have argued...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Supreme Court to Consider Scope of CFAA

- The U.S. Supreme Court will review whether a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes violates the CFAA if he accesses the same information for an improper purpose. - The Court’s...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Time to Re-examine Corporate Computer Access Policies

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Last week the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from a defendant who had been convicted of a felony charge under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”), the federal computer crime statute. Title 18, U.S.C. §...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Supreme Court to Resolve Circuit Split Regarding the Scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Which Has Been Used to Prosecute...

On April 20, the Supreme Court agreed to review the Eleventh Circuit’s decision in United States v. Van Buren, which broadly interpreted the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the main federal anti-hacking statute, as...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

CFAA Battle Heading to the Supreme Court

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While it can be hard to remember in a world dominated by COVID-19 headlines, the wheels of justice have not stopped turning at the Supreme Court—even if Justices are now hearing argument remotely. ...more

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Supreme Court Agrees to Decide Scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

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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

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Supreme Court Grants Cert to Resolve Long-Standing CFAA Circuit Split

We have previously written about the thorny questions surrounding the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”), including how its ambiguous language concerning what computer use is “authorized” has divided the Circuits and how...more

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