9th Circuit Affirms Computer Fraud Damages Award For Facebook

Mealey's (January 22, 2019, 1:03 PM EST) -- PASADENA, Calif. — An award of almost $80,000 to Facebook Inc. was upheld Jan. 18 by a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel that found that a trial court properly applied guidelines of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) in assessing damages against a now-defunct social media aggregator and its chief executive officer (Facebook Inc. v. Power Ventures Inc., et al., No. 17-16161, 9th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 1749)....