Legal Opinion
Halperin v. International Web Services, LLC
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided September 30, 2014No. 13 C 8573PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Memorandum Opinion and Order
FEINERMAN, United States District Judge
According to Dan Halperin, Text Enhance is a malicious software program that, having surreptitiously been installed on his computer, “enhances” text displayed in his web browser by selectively underlining words and generating unwanted pop-up ads when his cursor hovers over the underlined text. Doc. 2 at ¶ 25. Halperin brought this putative class action against Affluent Ads, LLC, and International Web Services, LLC, the creator and distributor of Text Enhance, alleging violations of the Computer- Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”),…
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