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Royal Truck & Trailer Sales and Service, Inc. v. Mike Kraft, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 19-1235 · judgment September 9, 2020

Certiorari denied · June 14, 2021

Pre-decision estimate: 18% cert probability (95% interval 11%–27%)

Before the decision, about 4.3× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a petition filed soon after the judgment below, a circuit split argued in the petition, and a dissent in the court below (flagged in the petition).

Question presented

Whether a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes violates Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act if he accesses the same information for an improper purpose. See also Nathan Van Buren v. United States, 140 S. Ct. 2667 (2020) (petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit granted on the same issue) (Supreme Court Docket Number 18-12024).

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Anthony Michael Sciara
Royal Truck & Trailer

For respondent
Richard Thomas Hewlett
Varnum LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 3 conferences

Proceedings

Jun 14 2021
Petition DENIED.
Jun 07 2021
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/10/2021.
Mar 24 2021
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/16/2021.
Mar 05 2021
Brief of respondents Mike Kraft, et al. in opposition filed.
Feb 03 2021
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including March 5, 2021.
Feb 02 2021
Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 3, 2021 to March 5, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
Jan 04 2021
Response Requested. (Due February 3, 2021)
Dec 16 2020
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.
Nov 24 2020
Waiver of right of respondent Mike Kraft, et al. to respond filed.
Sep 26 2020
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 30, 2020)