In a long awaited opinion, the Supreme Court recently resolved a circuit split regarding the proper interpretation of a statute implicated in many post-employment disputes. Since its enactment, ...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in the 6-3 opinion, wrote that the court would not interpret the phrase "exceeds authorized access" to criminalize every violation of a computer-use policy. (Associated ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the reach of a federal computer fraud law that seeks to address hacking and other cybercrimes, siding with a former Georgia police officer who was ...

The US Supreme Court has ruled that a police officer who obtained information from a licence database for a civilian, in exchange for money, did not violate federal hacking laws. The ruling clarifies ...

-The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday limited the type of conduct that can be prosecuted under a federal computer fraud law, overturning a former Georgia police officer's conviction for misusing a ...

"Indeed, there are many other causes of action—breach of contract, business torts, fraud, negligence, and so on—that provide a remedy for employers when employees grossly transgress computer-use ...

An individual who uses an authorized computer to access permissible areas of the computer no longer violates the “exceeds authorized access” clause of the CFAA, according to a new ruling. An ...

On June 3, 2021, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision in Van Buren v. United States, narrowing the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). In resolving a circuit split in favor of a ...