Oral Argument heard at Ninth Circuit in U.S. v. Nosal

At stake is whether the government can maintain criminal charges and an employer can maintain a civil cause of action under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act against an employee who steals company data by "exceeding authorized access" in violation of an employer's computer usage policies.

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