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A six-Justice majority of the Supreme Court of the United States issued an opinion Thursday interpreting the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The case, which was appealed from the 11th Circuit, centers around a former Georgia police officer who used a law enforcement database to look up information “in exchange for money.”
The opinion was authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and was joined by Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch, Breyer, and Kavanaugh. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a dissent, and was joined by Justice Alito and Chief Justice Roberts.
According to the opinion, the CFAA, among other things, “makes it illegal ‘to access a computer with authorization and to use such access to obtain or alter information in the computer that the accesser is not entitled so to obtain or alter. ” Key to the dispute is whether the law applies to users who are entitled to access the information at issue, but “have improper motives f
Federal Execution Post-Mortem: The Final Three Carried Out in January 2021
By Jessica Constant, DPRP Intern
[Note: This article is an update to our series on the 2020-2021 federal execution spree.]
In the waning days of his term, Donald Trump and his administration carried out three final federal executions. The executions of Lisa Montgomery, Corey Johnson, and Dustin Higgs brought the total number of executions carried out by the Federal Government in the past year to thirteen, a rate and number of executions unprecedented in modern times. Continuing the trend seen in the prior ten federal executions, the announcement of the final three execution dates spurred individual litigation that spanned jurisdictions.
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On April 5, 2021, in a highly anticipated decision concerning a
copyright clash over Java SE application-programming interfaces
(APIs), the Supreme Court ruled in a 6–2 decision that
Google s use of 11,500 lines of declaring Java code constituted fair use because Google used only the amount of code
necessary to transform the work into a highly creative and
innovative tool for a smartphone environment in this
case, the Android mobile operating system.
See Google LLC
v. Oracle America, Inc., No. 18-956.
This decision comes in the wake of almost eleven years of
Supreme Court Decides Google LLC v Oracle America, Inc | Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP jdsupra.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jdsupra.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following two decisions: United States Fish and Wildlife Serv. v. Sierra Club, Inc., No. 19-547: The Sierra Club.