Van Buren v. United States - Post-Argument SCOTUScast

14/12/2020 21 min
Van Buren v. United States - Post-Argument SCOTUScast

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Episode Synopsis

On November 30, 2020 the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Van Buren v. United States. The question before the court was 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.Orin Kerr is a Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law and he joins us to discuss this case’s oral argument.