[atomic_dog]

"The 7th Circuit made two remarkable leaps. First, the judges said that deleting files from a laptop counts as "damage." Second, they ruled that Citrin's implicit "authorization" evaporated when he (again, allegedly) chose to go into business for himself and violate his employment contract."

I see that activist judges have now done away with the presumption of innocence.

[ahayes]

Citrin points out that his employment contract authorized him to "return or destroy" data in the laptop when he ceased being employed by IAC.

If they don't like it, maybe they should hire a lawyer to write up a better employment contract.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

A laughable decision, which makes it all the scarier. Does this mean you can't defrag your drive?

[68skylark]

I see that activist judges have now done away with the presumption of innocence.

I think that a presumption of innocence only applies in criminal matters, not in civil litigation.

[proxy_user]

How can the company show the files ever existed? They have to at least establish that by the preponderance of evidence in a civil suit.

[Publius6961]

This case falls under the umbrella which, for convenience, I call "thought crime". It is a very popular legal and legislative topic these days because for some "very good reasons" and with the best of intentions, something "bad", might have been avoided by making actual non-crimes crimes. "It is possible or probable", is now often a crime.

Yes, that is scary.