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2nd Circ. Set To Weigh In On CFAA Circuit Split

Law360, New York (July 16, 2015, 10:38 AM EDT) -- The Second Circuit is poised to take sides in the current federal circuit court split about the extent to which the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act covers an employee's misappropriation of information from his/her employer. The split arises from the following typical fact pattern: The employee uses her work computer to take company information for use in planned future employment but does not perform any technical "hacking" beyond accessing and taking the information. Application of the CFAA is important because the statute provides access to the federal courts as well as powerful civil and criminal remedies....

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