Guajome Park Academy v. DuPerry

A group of former school employees started a website called Guajome Underground to rally school students, parents, and current and former employees to remove the school superintendent. The school claims that it discovered numerous instances of unauthorized access to a school database containing confidential information about students, including grades. The school alleges that confidential information, including the grades of a student, were posted to a "restricted" forum section of guajomeunderground.

The school sued a former student, Beau DuPerry, and a then-current employee, David McCulloch, for accessing the database and posting the confidential information, allegedly in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and provisions of California criminal law that provide for a private cause of action. DuPerry settled and agreed to cooperate with the school. The school moved to amend its complaint in November 2006, seeking to add others defendants who allegedly had access to the forum, as well as a civil conspiracy claim and a breach of contract claim (against McCulloch only). The court granted in part and denied in part the motion to amend the complaint (it appears that the court did not permit Guajome to add additional defendants). McCulloch moved for summary judgment in July 2007, and the court denied that motion in August 2007.

Updates:

7/13/2006 - Guajome Park settled with Defendant DuPerry - $11,200

12/11/2006 - Amended Complaint filed against Defendant McCulloch

7/9/2007 - McCulloch filed motion for summary judgment

8/16/2007 - Court denied McCulloch's motion for summary judgment

11/19/2008 - Court granted in part and denied in part Guajome Park's motion for reimbursement of fees

1/21/2009 - Court granted ex parte motion to continue mandatory settlement conference

11/24/2008 - Trial is scheduled to commence on 5/26/2009