Topic: permission or power granted by an authority. · Go Syfert
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8 canonical passages across 8 cases, quoted by 39 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from LVRC HOLDINGS LCC v. Brekka.

#Case FlagCanonical passage Citers
1 LVRC HOLDINGS LCC v. Brekka Anchor
ca9 · 2009
green “permission or power granted by an authority.” 8
2 United States v. Robert Tappan Morris
ca2 · 1991
green “of common usage, without any technical or ambiguous meaning.” 5
3 United States v. Sergio Ramos-Atondo
ca9 · 2013
green “the jewell standard eliminates the need to establish such positive knowledge to obtain a conspiracy conviction” 5
4 United States v. Valle
ca2 · 2015
green “common usage of 'authorization' suggests that one 'accesses a computer without authorization' if he accesses a computer without permission to do so at all.” 5
5 United States v. Carmen Denise Heredia
ca9 · 2007
green “not limited to positive knowledge, but includes the state of mind of one who does not possess positive knowledge only because he consciously avoided it.” 4
6 WEC Carolina Energy Solutions v. Willie Miller
ca4 · 2012
green “far-reaching effects unintended by congress.” 4
7 United States v. Waknine
ca9 · 2008
green “demonstrating that it was reasonably necessary for the victim to incur attorneys' and investigator's fees to participate in the investigation or prosecution of the offense.” 4
8 United States v. Nosal
cand · 2013
green “the indictment sufficiently alleged such circumvention.” 4

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