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Eugene Volokh

No Pseudonymity for Defendant in Computer Fraud and Abuse Act / Trade Secrets Case

From Grow Universe Inc. v. Doe, decided Friday by Judge Gregory Woods (S.D.N.Y.):

Plaintiff filed this action on March 5, 2025, alleging that Defendant accessed Plaintiff's Google business account without authorization, misappropriated the proprietary information stored within it, and deleted the account. The complaint asserts claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse and the Defend Trade Secrets Act, as well as conversion and tortious interference under New York law.

The court had earlier refused to quash a subpoena to Spectrum seeking identification information about the defendant, plaintiff therefore identified the person that it thinks is the defendant. That person moved to intervene, asking to remain anonymous, but the court rejected the anonymity request:

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