North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

BY SAAD GUL AND MIKE SLIPSKY U.S. Magistrate Judge Christopher J. Burke of the District of Delaware recently held that “click fraud” violates the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). “Click fraud” refers to a phenomenon when an online ...

Tagged with: digital currency

The great P.G. Wodehouse had a character who sought privacy. Unfortunately, by a series of events, “She couldn’t have had much less privacy if she had been running a snack bar on a racecourse.” Most attorneys are analogously placed, as ...

Tagged with: Technology

By Saad Gul Poyner Spruill LLP Self-driving vehicles give a whole new meaning to the term “backseat driver.” Self-driving vehicles, or autonomous vehicles (AVs), permit passengers to get from one point to another with no human driver in control of ...

Tagged with: self-driving cars

As Congress continues to wrestle with federal data privacy legislation, states have been lining up alternative proposals. North Carolina has introduced its own bipartisan bill (HB 904), which will not pass this year. Even so, analysis of its provisions reveals ...

Any justice of the Supreme Court of the United States writing a book on advocacy can expect it to draw considerable attention. But if the justice combines a colorful, Oscar-the-grouch persona with a famed wit and acerbic writing style and ...

Author’s note: Nothing in this piece should be taken to reflect the views of any of the Judges of the Court of Appeals. All mistakes and views are mine alone. This article is dedicated to Chief Judge John C. Martin, ...