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With many employees working from home a number of issues have become more pressing, including misuse of an employer’s computer system.  The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act criminalizes “obtaining information from any protected computer” by “intentionally access[ing] a computer without authorization or exceed[ing] authorized access.”  But what if an employee is authorized to access the computer and accesses the computer for an illicit or improper purpose?

On October 1, 2017 an “Act Concerning Pregnant Women in the Workplace” went into effect in Connecticut.  It has been illegal to discriminate against employees on the basis of pregnancy under both federal and Connecticut law.  However, generally under federal and to a lesser degree under Connecticut

In enacting its medical marijuana law, Connecticut added a provision barring employers from taking adverse employment actions against a “qualifying patient” because of the patient’s use of medical marijuana.  Questions were raised as to whether the Connecticut statute was preempted by federal law, w