Nathan Van Buren, Petitioner v. United States

  1. July 08, 2020

    CFAA Needs To Stay Narrow To Fight Hackers, High Court Told

    Mozilla, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and several nonprofit advocacy groups are among those urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rein in an Eleventh Circuit ruling that broadly construed the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, arguing that criminalizing activity that violates companies' network usage rules would hurt vital work to combat cyber threats. 

  2. July 02, 2020

    High Court Warned Of Danger In 11th Circ.'s Expanded CFAA

    The Eleventh Circuit's broad view of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act would criminalize ordinary internet activity like posting items in the wrong Craigslist category, lawyers for a former Georgia police officer claim in a case set to go before the U.S. Supreme Court.

  3. April 20, 2020

    High Court To Examine Scope Of Federal Computer Crime Law

    The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether it is a federal crime to use one's authorized access to a computer for inappropriate purposes, in a test of a key computer crimes law criticized as being dangerously broad.