L’Occitane’s Computer Fraud Claim Against Zimmerman Reed Tossed

Zimmerman Reed LLP convinced a federal district court to dismiss L’Occitane Inc.'s claim that the law firm and its clients visited the company’s site without authorization in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

L’Occitane sued Feb. 8, alleging that Zimmerman Reed engaged in a scheme to extract a settlement for L’Occitane’s use of analytics “cookies” by exploiting an arbitration provision in the terms and conditions on the site. L’Occitane said Zimmerman Reed violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, among other claims.

But L’Occitane didn’t raise a viable CFAA claim because it is premised on revoking permission for ...