Pulte Homes, Inc. v. Laborers' International Union of North America

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the CFAA “criminalizes certain computer-fraud crimes and creates a civil cause of action”
• explaining that the CFAA “criminalizes certain computer-fraud crimes and creates a civil cause of action”
• “Because Congress left the interpretation of ‘without authorization’ to the courts, we [ ] start with ordinary usage.”
• “Commonly understood, . . . a defendant who accesses a computer ‘without authorization’ does so without sanction or permission.”
• “Because [the plaintiff] does not allege that [the defendant] possessed no right to contact [the plaintiffs] offices and its executives, it fails to satisfy one of the elements — access “without authorization” — of its claim.”
• “The plain meaning of ‘authorization’ is ‘[t]he conferment of legality; . . . sanction.’” (quoting 1 Oxford English Dictionary 798 (2d ed. 1989)); United States v. Aleynikov, 737 F. Supp. 2d 173, 191–92 (S.D.N.Y. 2010

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).