Nicholas Moore, a 24-year-old Tennessee man, pleaded guilty to using stolen credentials of authorized users to hack into computer systems of the Supreme Court, VA, and AmeriCorps, obtaining sensitive information and then ...

On December 5, 2022, the United States Supreme Court once again jumped into the argument about whether the government can compel a designer of wedding websites to provide services that support same-sex ...

Ho Ka Terrance Yung wanted to go to Georgetown University School of Law. He had good grades and good LSAT scores and arranged for an “alumni” interview—an interview with a former Hoya ...

Last week, a highly confidential draft opinion in the Dobbs abortion rights case was leaked to reporters at Politico. Many have called for the leaker to be identified and prosecuted. However, a ...

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, 47 U. S. C. §230(c)(1), is generally considered to provide that entities that merely act as conduits for communication (like social media companies) are not ...

The federal computer crime law makes it both a criminal offense and a civil offense (you can sue for damages or loss) for someone to “access a computer without authorization” or to ...

Nathan Van Buren was a police officer in rural Georgia. As such, he had lawful access to both the National Crime Information Computer (NCIC) and the Georgia Crime Information Center (GCIC) with ...

For more than 30 years, the federal computer hacking statute has been used by companies to sue employees (and former employees), competitors and even customers and users who violate their rules on ...

In order to get into court – particularly federal court – a party has to demonstrate that they have “standing” to sue — that is, that they have personally suffered some kind ...

If the government wants to track your location for hours, days, weeks, months or even years, it has various tools at its disposal: It can commit the resources of teams of detectives ...