Petitions of the day
Thepetitions of the day are:
Issue:Whether a person who obtains an account holders permission to access a computer nevertheless accesses a computer without authorization in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when he acts without permission from the computers owner.
Issues:(1) Whether the courts below erred by balancing the trademark likelihood of confusion factors as an issue of law rather than a question of fact, contrary to the Supreme Court’s analysis inHana Financial Inc. v. Hana Bankand the majority of circuits; and (2) whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit erred by affirming summary judgment against petitioner where it applied the wrong standard of review for balancing the trademark likelihood of confusion factors.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
Cases: Nosal v. United States, Kibler v. Hall