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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
The Supreme Court took up a case Monday over gunfire in the Bronx that struck and killed a 2-year-old bystander. One suspect took a plea to a simple gun charge, and the state used that man’s testimony to convict another.
WASHINGTON (CN) One afternoon in April 2006, there was a street fight in the Bronx that ended with the death of a bystander, 2-year-old David Pacheco.
Fifteen years later, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the man convicted of that murder was wrongly denied the chance to confront a witness against him.
Per its custom, the court took up the case this morning without any comment one grant in a sea of denied cases but petitioner Darrell Hemphill notes that division among state courts on testimonial hearsay requires resolution in Washington.
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