No. 24-7372

Guy Cuomo v. United States

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2025-06-06
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP
Tags: computer-crime computer-fraud criminal-intent social-security-fraud statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2026-01-09 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether petitioner knowingly accessed a public computer 'without authorization' within the meaning of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when accessing a publicly available computer system with limited internal areas

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. Whether petitioner knowingly accessed a public computer “without authorization” within the meaning of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2), or conspired to do so, when he accessed a public computer system which anyone could access and use to obtain information , but navigated to a certain area within the computer system that limited access. 2. Whether the evidence was sufficient to establish that appellant a) falsely represented a number to be the social security account number assigned to him, or b) conspired to commit that offense, since the draft applications for unemployment were never s ubmitted.

Docket Entries

2026-01-12
Rehearing DENIED.
2025-12-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/9/2026.
2025-10-31
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-06-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-06-20
Waiver of United States of right to respond submitted.
2025-06-20
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2025-06-04
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 7, 2025)

Attorneys

Guy Cuomo
Andrew LevchukAndrew Levchuk, Counsellor at Law, LLC, Petitioner
Guy Cuomo — Petitioner
United States
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent
Moez Mansoor KabaHueston Hennigan LLP, Respondent