Jones v. Beverly Hills Unified Sch. Dist.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that downloading data without altering data or disrupting service is insufficient to constitute “damage”
• holding that downloading data without altering data or disrupting service is insufficient to constitute “damage”
• finding that “causes damage” could be as destructive as using a virus on a computer, or less invasive conduct such as “flooding an email account.”
• finding that a three-tiered system comprising county databases, a user-interface, and a “middle tier” that facilitated communication between the databases and the interface did not meet the definition of “computer”
• “hence, ‘causes damage’ encompasses clearly destructive behavior such as using a virus or worm or deleting data. But it may also include less obviously invasive conduct, such as flooding an email account.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).