( May 17, 2017, 11:48 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A man whose conviction under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) was upheld by a divided Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals filed a petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court on May 5, arguing that the circuit courts are split as to whether computer fraud under the statute should be based on a user’s access to a computer or on the “intentions, expectations, and contractual or agency relationships” of a computer’s owner (David Nosal v. United States of America, No. 16-1344, U.S. Sup.)....