Paul Porvaznik – Business Litigator
Case Notes and Summaries of Recent Cases (State and Federal Courts – Illinois Focus)
While this Court does not disagree that unwanted text messages, like spam e-mail, are an annoyance, whether receipts of such messages can establish a civil action under the CFAA is, of course, a different question. Czech v. Wall Street on Demand, Inc. 674 F.Supp. 1102, 1106 (N.D.Minn. 2009). Anti-spam (e-mail and text) lawsuits and legislation are legion: a flurry …
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Can surfing the Net on company time get you fired? Perhaps. Can it subject you to Federal criminal and civil penalties? Not yet. At least not in the Tampa, Florida area. Wendy Lee v. PMSI, 2011 WL 1742028 (M.D.Fla. 2011) illustrates a creative attempt to expand the reach of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act …
Continue reading “Facebooking at Work: A Federal Offense? (With ‘Aarons Law’ Update)”