Justice Amy Coney Barrett, U.S. Supreme Court. (Photo: Diego M Radzinschi / ALM) In Georgia Cop's Computer Fraud Case, 'Textualist' Justices Part Ways
Nathan Van Buren, a Georgia police officer, was convicted of violating the statute when he used his law enforcement computer to access license plate information for a private party who then paid him for it.
June 03, 2021 at 03:16 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
In a case concerning allegations that a Georgia police officer made unauthorized use of his computer to search license plates, Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Clarence Thomas parted ways on Thursday over the scope of the word "so" in the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Both justices are self-described "textualists" who, as Barrett said in her majority opinion, "start where we always do: with the text of the statute." But they found little common ground in the court's foray into cybersecurity under a law drafted during the 1980s.
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