E-Commerce 2025


Final exam2025

The website is the syllabus

Casebook

Offer and aceptance

January 27

PowerPoint: Introduction and assumptions

Reading: Lefkowitz v. Great Minneapolis Surplus Store

Tutorial: What is an offer?

The duty to read and unconscionability

No reading

Tutorial: Unconscionability

PowerPoint: Unconscionability.pptx
PowerPoint: The duty to read.pptx

Reading: Klar v. H. & M. Parcel Room

PowerPoint:Traditional offer and acceptance

February 3

Reading: ProCD v. Zeidenberg

PowerPoint: ProCD v. Zeidenberg

Reading: Specht v. Netscape

Tutorial: Specht v. Netscape

PowerPoint: Specht v. Netscape

Reading: Berman v. Freedom Financial Network

PowerPoint After Specht: The Affirmative Act Requirement

Reasonable expectations

Reading: Steven v. Fidelity and Casualty Co.

PowerPoint: Traditional reasonable expectations

Updatable contracts

Reading: Perdue v. Crocker National Bank

PowerPoint: Updating

Reading: Badie v. Bank of America

Tutorial: Badie v. Bank of America

PowerPoint: Reasonable expectations online

Reading: Rodriquez v. Instagram

Tutorial: Rodriquez v. Instagram

PowerPoint: Retroactively updatable contracts

February 17

Cybersecurity

Liability for Failure to Prevent Access to a Computer or Network

Introduction

Introduction to Security

Tutorial: The Federal Trade Commission

Wyndham and LabMD
Expected gain/loss

Tutorial: Expected value*

Vulnerabilties

February 24

Negligence

Reading: Kline v. 1500 Massachusetts Ave.

PowerPoint: Negligence

Tutorial: Regulating data breaches

Reading: Dittman v. UMPC

Reading: In Re: Blackbaud

PowerPoint: Dittman v. UPMC
PowerPoint: The duty of due care

The Economic loss Rule

Reading: Dittman v. UMPC

PowerPoint: Economic loss rule
PowerPoint: Eculpatory clauses in Contracts
PowerPoint: Outsourcing
PowerPoint: FCC and SEC

March 3

Breach of Confidence

In Re Capital One

Warren v. DSG Retail

PowerPoint: Breach of confidence

Implied contracts

Reading: In Re GE/CBPS Data Breach Litigation

PowerPoint: Implied In Fact Contracts

Liability for Accessing a Computer or Network

Trespass to personal property

Reading: eBay v. Bidders' Edge

Tutorial: Spam email cases

Tutorial: eBay v. Bidders' Edge

Tutorial: Intel v. Hamidi

PowerPoint: eBay and Intl

March 10

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

Unauthorized access

Reading: Facebook v. Power Venturess

Reading: hiQ v. LinkedIn

Tutorial: Introduction and Facebook v. Power Ventures

PowerPoint: CFAA introduction
PowerPoint: CFAA Facebook and Power Ventures

Rights Against Government Seizure of Data

Fouuth Amendment basics

Reading: Katz v. US

Fourth Amendment basics

Third Party Doctrine

Reading: Hoffa v. US

Reading: Smith v. Maryland

Reading: Carpenter v. US

Geofencing

Electronic search, passwords

Electronic search passwords

March 17

Spring break no class

March 24

Why Has Privacy Law Failed So Badly?

PowerPoint: Contemporary Privacy
PowerPoint: Bayes Law and Terrorism

No class

April 7

PowerPoint:Competitive Markets
PowerPoint: Lemons Markets
PowerPoint:Basic Antitrust
PowerPoint:Big Data Competition
PowerPoint: Market Dominance in the Digital/Internet World
PowerPoint: Net Neutrality
PowerPoint: Standing
PowerPoint: Lessons From 23andMe

April 14

PowerPoint: Software vulnerabilities
PowerPoint: Lemons markets

Apri1 21

PowerPoint: Reasonableness and Standards
PowerPoint: Cyberwar

Contracts Express and Implied

In re: Michaels Stores Pin Pad Litigation

Unjust Enrichment

In re Target Corporation Customer Data Security Breach Litigation

PowerPoint: Contracts Unjust Enrichment and Cybersecurity

Apri1 28

Exam review