Wehland v. Palmer

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that CFAA claims accrued, for limitations purposes, when the plaintiff first discovered the “damage” to her email account—that she could not access her account—regardless of whether she knew “exactly what happened or why she could not log in”
• discussing the plaintiff’s civil CFAA claim against defendant ex-boyfriend who altered the login credentials for her Facebook account and used the unauthorized access to post malicious content
• construing statute of limitations periods under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Stored Communications Act to begin when plaintiff discovered she could not access a particular AOL or Facebook account
• “The CFAA’s statute of limitations began to run when Sewell learned that the integrity of her account had impaired.”
• “The plaintiff does have the option of initiating a lawsuit against a Jane or John Doe defendant, but she must still discover the hacker’s identity within two years of discovery or a reasonable opportunity to discover the violation to avoid dismissal.”
• dismissing part of CFAA claim discovered outside the limitations period

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).