This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Virginia Computer Crimes Act."
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-152.1
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Known as the Virginia Computer Crimes Act
The act spans §§ 18–18 (19 sections).
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Van Alstyne v. Electronic Scriptorium, Ltd. (2009)
Most recently applied in Hately v. Watts (March 2019)
1984, c. 751.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.