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Employment Law - Antidiscrimination - Unpaid And Unprotected: Protecting Our Nation's Volunteers Through Title Vii, Tara Kpere Daibo Oct 2009

Employment Law - Antidiscrimination - Unpaid And Unprotected: Protecting Our Nation's Volunteers Through Title Vii, Tara Kpere Daibo

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Agency, Code, Or Contract: Determining Employees' Authorization Under The Computer Fraud And Abuse Act, Katherine Mesenbring Field Mar 2009

Agency, Code, Or Contract: Determining Employees' Authorization Under The Computer Fraud And Abuse Act, Katherine Mesenbring Field

Michigan Law Review

The federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA ") provides for civil remedies against individuals who have accessed a protected computer without authorization or in excess of their authorization. With increasing numbers of employees using computers at work, employers have turned to the CFAA in situations where disloyal employees have pilfered company information from the employer's computer system. The vague language of the CFAA, however, has led courts to develop three different interpretations of "authorization" in these CFAA employment cases, with the result that factually similar cases in different courts can generate opposite outcomes in terms of employee liability under …