Tag Archives: CFAA

Beta Technology, Inc. v. Meyers, 2013 WL 5602930 (S.D. Tx. Oct. 10, 2013) (order denying motion to dismiss) Denying the motion to dismiss, the court found Plaintiff’s Complaint adequately pleaded (1) both access and transmission violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and (2) the requisite $5,000 loss. Defendant Meyers was an employee of Plaintiff working …

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Vehicle Valuation Services v. DiMaria, et al., 2013 WL 5587089 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2013) Defendants are former employees of Plaintiff; Plaintiff’s primary allegation is against Defendant DiMaria who resigned his employment. Plaintiff recovered e-mails from his computer showing he had e-mailed himself confidential and proprietary business information belonging to Plaintiff, which all Defendants used …

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In re Google Inc. Cookie Placement Consumer Privacy Litigation, 2013 WL 5582866 (D. Del. Oct. 9, 2013) Plaintiffs brought multidistrict consolidated litigation against Google and several online advertisers that work with Google arguing that the Defendants used coding in advertisements that “‘tricked’ their Apple Safari and/or Internet browsers into accepting cookies, which then allowed defendants …

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Sysco Corp. v. Katz, et al., 2013 WL 5519411 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 3, 2013) Plaintiffs’ allegation that a departing employee’s “purported cover-up by deleting items from his ‘sent’ and ‘deleted items’ folders located on Plaintiffs’ computer system” was sufficient to state a claim under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and survive a motion to …

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JBCHoldings NY, LLC v. Pakter, 931 F. Supp.2d 514 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 20, 2013) Plaintiff purchased an executive search firm from the Defendants. Per their agreement, Defendant Janou would continue working for the business; both Defendants entered into a non-compete agreement. Despite the non-competes, the Defendants began setting up a competing business that was discovered when …

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Danois v. i3 Archive Inc., 2013 WL 3556083 (E.D. Pa. July 12, 2013) Employer sued employee for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act premised on the allegation that, after termination of his employment, employee deleted emails from his own and another terminated employee’s email accounts. Employer, however, was able to easily restore all, or …

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Capitol Audio Access, Inc. v. Umemoto, 2013 WL 5425324 (E.D. Cal. Sept. 27, 2013) Plaintiff owned an online service that published daily reports of information and had an archive of past issues. The service was passcode-protected and only available to subscribers who paid a subscription fee based on the number of individuals who had access …

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Givaudan Fragrances Corp. v. Krivda, 2013 WL 5411475 (D.N.J. Sept. 26, 2013) Generally, “an employee who may access a computer by the terms of his employment is authorized to use that computer for purposes of CFAA evenif his purpose in doing so is to misuse or misappropriate the employer’s information.” Here, Krivda was authorized to access that information…. …

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Facebook, Inc. v. Power Ventures, Inc., 2013 WL 5372341 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 25, 2013) There have been several orders in this case and the order listed above is an order denying leave to file a motion for reconsideration of the court’s previous order granting summary judgment for Facebook. It is helpful to read this order …

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Dice Corporation v. Bold Technologies, 913 F. Supp.2d 389 (E.D. Mich. 2012) (reconsideration denied March 28, 2013) Plaintiff and defendant were competing providers of alarm monitoring software that provided their software to companies in the alarm industry. ESC Central was plaintiff’scustomer and had a database that stored large amounts of data for ESC’s customers including …

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