Mealey's (September 8, 2017, 1:20 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals correctly found that a man’s acquisition of his former employer’s trade secrets occurred via unauthorized access of the firm’s computer system in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the U.S. government tells the U.S. Supreme Court in a Sept. 5 brief opposing the ex-employee’s petition for certiorari, arguing that the ruling created no split among the federal appeals courts (David Nosal v. United States, No. 16-1344, U.S. Sup.)....