By Robert Milligan and Jessica Mendelson
With the NBA basketball season almost upon us, a high profile legal battle between an aspiring NBA sports agent and his former agency continues to heat up in Los Angeles federal court. The case involves some interesting non-compete, trade secret, and privacy issues.
In April 2012, we first alerted you to the colorful case
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By Jessica Mendelson and Robert Milligan
Ownership of company social media accounts has recently become a hot topic in the legal industry, and with its decision in Eagle v. Morgan, 2012 WL 4739436, E.D.Pa., October 04, 2012 (NO. CIV.A. 11-4303) this past week, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has added fuel to the fire.
Edcomm, a banking education company, was
Continue Reading Pennsylvania Federal Court Dismisses Employee’s Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Claim Based Upon Employer’s Alleged Improprer Access of LinkedIn Account: No Cognizable Damages
On September 19, 2012, Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and John Hoeven (R-ND) introduced the “Cloud Computing Act of 2012.” The bill is a bipartisan effort to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”). If the bill passes, it would purportedly provide greater civil and criminal protections under the CFAA against unlawful computer activites related to cloud computing than currently
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By Misty Blair
In August, we waved farewell to the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (S.3414). Or, so we thought. The bill, which followed a tortured path of at least four major iterations since the introduction of its predecessor in 2010, finally hit the brick wall of Senate gridlock when a cloture vote failed to end debate. While this failure effectively
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As a special feature of our blog –special guest postings by experts, clients, and other professionals –please enjoy the third part of a three part blog series by digital forensics expert Jim Vaughn, a Managing Director of Intelligent Discovery Solutions.
By Jim Vaughn
Welcome to part 3 of this three part series. Part 1 covered the BYOD concept and
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Following up on Jessica Mendelson’s previous post on the subject, Jessica had the chance to speak with Colin O’Keefe of LXBN regarding the shocking story involving a federal court clerk who allegedly gave confidential information to street gangs in California. In the brief interview, Jessica explains what happened and how this is an example of why the Computer Fraud
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In a shocking scandal, a federal court clerk has been accused of leaking confidential files, including information disclosing details of contemplated law enforcement raids on Armenian street gangs.
As reported by the ABA, Nune Gevorkyan (“Gevorkyan”), a district court criminal intake clerk, and her husband, Oganes Koshkaryan (“Koshkaryan”) were arrested and charged with conspiring to obstruct justice, a violation
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On August 15, state proceedings were temporarily adjourned while prosecutors decide whether to file formal charges against programmer Sergey Aleynikov in this high profile trade secret/data theft matter.
Last week, Aleynikov was charged with state crimes for the alleged theft of confidential trading codes, despite the fact that the federal court of appeals had already dismissed federal charges earlier this
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On August 1, 2012, Illinois became the second state in the nation to adopt a law prohibiting employers from seeking employee or prospective employee passwords to access their non-public portions of their social networking sites.
The Illinois’ law, an amendment to the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act that will become effective January 1, 2013, makes
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By Robert Milligan and Joshua Salinas
The Solicitor General indicated yesterday that he will not file a petition for a writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court in U.S. v. Nosal.
It was anticipated by some legal commentators that a Supreme Court decision in Nosal may resolve a deepening split between the Circuit Courts regarding the proper interpretation of
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