Solar Panel Rivals In Trade Secret and Data Theft Spat In California Federal...
By Jessica Mendelson On February 13, SunPower Corporation, a manufacturer of solar panels, sued five former employees, as well as its rival, SolarCity Corporation in federal court in San Francisco,...
View ArticleWaiting On Nosal…Combating Data Theft Under The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act...
By Robert Milligan and Jeffrey Oh A recent California federal court decision has permitted an employer to pursue a former employee for alleged violations of the employer’s computer usage policies under...
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Minnesota District Court Dismisses Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Claim Brought...
By Robert Milligan, Joshua Salinas, and Jeffrey Oh In another decision that underscores the circuit split regarding the interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act’s (CFAA) language on...
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California Federal District Court Distinguishes Ninth Circuit’s Nosal...
On June 19, 2012, a district court for the Northern District of California distinguished the Ninth Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Nosal decision and allowed an employer to bring a claim under the Computer...
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Update: California Federal District Court Reaffirms that Computer Fraud and...
Last month we blogged about a district court for the Northern District of California that distinguished the Ninth Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Nosal decision and allowed an employer to bring a counterclaim...
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Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Claims Subject to Heightened Pleading Requirements
In a recent Northern District of California decision, Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong upheld the Ninth Circuit’s ruling in Nosal, and at the same time, held that fraudulent conduct claims under the...
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Recent California Federal Court Rulings Muddy the Interpretation of the...
Does the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) prohibit hacking–improperly gaining entrance into a computer system–or simply prohibit improper use of a computer system? U.S. Courts of Appeal are...
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Nosal Update: Nosal Sentenced to One Year in Federal Prison
On January 8th, after years of litigation and numerous delays, Executive Recruiter David Nosal was sentenced to one year and a day in federal prison for his April 25, 2013 conviction on three counts...
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California Federal Courts Reiterate: Unless Computer Hacked, Computer Fraud...
In United States v. Nosal, 676 F.3d 854 (9th Cir. 2012) (en banc), the court held that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030, prohibits unlawful access to a computer but not unauthorized...
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Nosal Update: Ninth Circuit Hears Oral Arguments on Password Sharing and...
On October 20, 2015, a Ninth Circuit panel consisting of Chief Judge Sidney Thomas and Judges M. Margaret McKeown and Stephen Reinhardt heard oral argument from the U.S. Department of Justice and...
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