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CA Court of Appeals: State Spam Statute Imposes Strict Liability and is not Preempted by CAN-SPAM

Posted by Venkat at 1/20/2011 7:11 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Portrait of a Lawyer Turned Anti-Spammer

Posted by Venkat at 12/28/2010 2:48 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The Rise and Fall of a Spam Plaintiff

Posted by Venkat at 9/30/2010 7:54 PM | Add Comment

Recent Spam Litigation Activity in California Courts

Posted by Venkat at 4/19/2010 6:09 AM | Add Comment

Gordon v. Virtumundo: 9th Cir Smacks Down Anti-Spammers in Trifecta Defense Win

Posted by Venkat at 8/6/2009 9:24 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Federal Court (N.D. Cal.) Bucks Trend, Limits CAN-SPAM Preemption

Posted by Venkat at 4/24/2009 1:37 PM | Add Comment

Email Bombardment is Not Actionable?

Posted by Venkat at 4/20/2009 10:14 AM | Add Comment

CAN-SPAM Preempts Ohio Email Statute

Posted by Venkat at 3/23/2009 7:44 AM | Add Comment

Class Action Against Reunion.com Gets Another Chance?

Posted by Venkat at 3/15/2009 6:39 AM | Add Comment

e360 Seeks Indemnification From Choicepoint Under Data License Agreement

Posted by Venkat at 3/10/2009 9:32 PM | Add Comment

Will the Supreme Court Hear Virginia v. Jaynes?

Posted by Venkat at 3/4/2009 12:15 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Facebook Obtains Temporary Restraining Order Against Sanford Wallace

Posted by Venkat at 3/3/2009 8:07 AM | Add Comment

Facebook Sues Sanford Wallace for Alleged Facebook Wall Spam

Posted by Venkat at 2/28/2009 9:27 AM | Add Comment

9th Circuit Skeptical of Unsolicited Text Messager's Position

Posted by Venkat at 2/11/2009 10:53 PM | Add Comment

Are Courts Too Easy on Spam Plaintiffs?

Posted by Venkat at 1/29/2009 3:24 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Class Action Lawsuit Alleging State Spam Claims Dismissed Again (With Leave to Amend)

Posted by Venkat at 1/3/2009 12:15 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

CAN-SPAM Plaintiff Taxed With $30K in Costs

Posted by Venkat at 12/21/2008 7:40 AM | Add Comment

Kleffman Certified to California Supreme Court

Posted by Venkat at 12/20/2008 7:32 AM | Add Comment

CAN-SPAM Case Stayed Pending Resolution of 9th Cir Appeal

Posted by Venkat at 12/16/2008 8:52 AM | Add Comment

Kleffman v. Vonage - No Oral Argument

Posted by Venkat at 12/16/2008 8:41 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Virginia Seeks US Supreme Court Review of Jaynes

Posted by Venkat at 12/11/2008 2:21 PM | Add Comment

Virtumundo Ninth Circuit Argument: Impressions

Posted by Venkat at 12/11/2008 12:24 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Whistler Blackcomb Opt-Out Tricks?

Posted by Venkat at 11/26/2008 6:54 AM | Add Comment

Unsolicited Marketing Extravaganza in the Ninth Circuit

Posted by Venkat at 11/13/2008 11:34 AM | Add Comment

Gordon Soldiers On, This Time Against Subscriberbase

Posted by Venkat at 11/10/2008 10:39 PM | Add Comment

Virtumundo - 9th Cir. Appeal

Posted by Venkat at 11/6/2008 12:55 PM | Add Comment

“Forward To Friend” Class Action Against Reunion.com Dismissed With Leave to Amend

Posted by Venkat at 10/25/2008 3:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Judge Lasnik Denies Impulse Media's Request for Fees Under EAJA

Posted by Venkat at 10/16/2008 12:54 PM | Add Comment

CAN-SPAM: Peacefire Wins on Standing in the Western District of Washington

Posted by Venkat at 10/16/2008 5:54 AM | Add Comment

Gordon v. Virtumundo / 9th Cir. Appeal

Posted by Venkat at 10/9/2008 6:41 AM | Add Comment

Are Courts Getting Tired of Spam Plaintiffs?

Posted by Venkat at 10/8/2008 7:08 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Sign up For Northwest Miles and Receive Emails from Paypal?

Posted by Venkat at 10/1/2008 12:38 PM | Add Comment

Stay Granted Against Asis

Posted by Venkat at 9/15/2008 8:39 PM | Add Comment

Can MySpace Suits Can the Spam

Posted by Venkat at 8/21/2008 2:54 PM | Add Comment

ARG Seeks to Stay Asis Dispute Pending Resolution of Gordon

Posted by Venkat at 8/20/2008 5:51 AM | Add Comment

Federal Trial Court Shoots Down Another CAN-SPAM Lawsuit

Posted by Venkat at 8/13/2008 9:11 AM | Add Comment

Federal Judge Rejects Strict CAN-SPAM Causation

Posted by Venkat at 8/12/2008 7:26 AM | Add Comment

Project Honey Pot Lawsuit Faces 20 Day Deadline

Posted by Venkat at 7/29/2008 5:30 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Spam King Gets 47

Posted by Venkat at 7/29/2008 3:47 AM | Add Comment

MySpace Wins Big Against Richter?

Posted by Venkat at 6/17/2008 7:47 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Asis Internet Soldiers On

Posted by Venkat at 5/29/2008 7:39 AM | Add Comment

US v. Impulse Media - No CAN-SPAM Injunction

Posted by Venkat at 5/24/2008 7:20 AM | Add Comment

FTC: Additional CAN-SPAM Clarifications

Posted by Venkat at 5/13/2008 8:44 AM | Add Comment

e360 + Silverstein - The Saga Continues

Posted by Venkat at 5/10/2008 12:17 PM | Add Comment

Asis Internet's Lead Lawsuit Rejected on Summary Judgment

Posted by Venkat at 5/8/2008 2:09 PM | Add Comment

Reunion Pushes the Envelope (and then some)

Posted by Venkat at 4/29/2008 11:08 AM | Add Comment

New Spam Law in CO

Posted by Venkat at 4/24/2008 7:12 AM | Add Comment

California Anti-Spammers Push Misguided Anti-Spam Bill

Posted by Venkat at 4/18/2008 8:03 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

e360's Claims Rejected on Section 230 Grounds

Posted by Venkat at 4/12/2008 8:34 AM | Add Comment

Brosnan v. Alki Mortgage: Dismissed

Posted by Venkat at 4/6/2008 2:24 PM | Add Comment

Impulse Media

Posted by Venkat at 3/24/2008 12:17 PM | Add Comment

MySpace Text Class Action (in Illinois)

Posted by Venkat at 3/20/2008 10:19 PM | Add Comment

Forced Opt-In, Courtesy of Pizza Hut

Posted by Venkat at 3/20/2008 1:50 PM | Add Comment

Soloway Pleas

Posted by Venkat at 3/14/2008 2:29 PM | Add Comment

Affiliate Marketing Guidelines

Posted by Venkat at 3/8/2008 9:24 PM | Add Comment

Comcast Serves up Some Tasty Section 230 Morsels

Posted by Venkat at 3/6/2008 11:28 AM | Add Comment

Soloway Moves to Dismiss ID Theft Counts

Posted by Venkat at 2/25/2008 10:41 PM | Add Comment

ND Cal. Court Dismisses CAN-SPAM Complaint on its Own Motion

Posted by Venkat at 2/21/2008 8:10 AM | Add Comment

4 Years of CAN-SPAM

Posted by Venkat at 2/1/2008 8:08 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Anti-Spam Community Up in Arms: North Dakota Judge Slams David Ritz

Posted by Venkat at 1/16/2008 2:24 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Washington AG: Virtumundo Should be Limited so as to Not Cause Blanket Preemption

Posted by Venkat at 1/13/2008 8:02 AM | Add Comment

Spammers Just Can't Seem to Catch a Break

Posted by Venkat at 12/6/2007 10:08 PM | Add Comment

More of the Same

Posted by Venkat at 10/22/2007 10:45 PM | Add Comment

Herbal Supplement Class Action Wraps Up

Posted by Venkat at 9/21/2007 8:17 AM | Add Comment

Defendants Convicted in 1st Criminal CAN-SPAM Trial

Posted by Venkat at 9/8/2007 11:05 AM | Add Comment

Spamhaus Rebuffed by Seventh Circuit

Posted by Venkat at 8/31/2007 6:10 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

School Board Not Liable for Blocking Mass Advocacy Emails

Posted by Venkat at 8/25/2007 10:49 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Group Defines the Term "Bacn"

Posted by Venkat at 8/20/2007 7:10 AM | Add Comment

MySpace Follow Up (Are "In-Network" Messages Subject to CAN-SPAM)?

Posted by Venkat at 8/16/2007 6:00 AM | Add Comment

Court Issues MySpace Injunction Against Wallace

Posted by Venkat at 8/14/2007 8:05 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Court Tags CAN-SPAM Plaintiff With $111,000 Fee Award

Posted by Venkat at 8/2/2007 5:22 AM | Add Comment | Trackbacks

Should moveon.org Be Worrying About CAN-SPAM Compliance?

Posted by Venkat at 7/19/2007 7:58 AM | Add Comment

Court to Lawyer: Whitelist the Court Domain Name!

Posted by Venkat at 7/10/2007 10:55 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

SMS Spam Litigation – The Next Wave?

Posted by Venkat at 6/28/2007 6:34 AM | Add Comment

Unsolicited Political Messages

Posted by Venkat at 6/25/2007 10:36 PM | Add Comment

Vonage

Posted by Venkat at 6/25/2007 10:34 PM | Add Comment

Anti-Spammers Trucking Along

Posted by Venkat at 6/22/2007 12:12 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Harvesting: Probably Not a Great Idea

Posted by Venkat at 6/14/2007 5:35 AM | Add Comment

CAN-SPAM: Another FTC Enforcement Action Encounters Obstacles

Posted by Venkat at 6/13/2007 8:15 AM | Add Comment

Spam wars: MySpace v The Globe.com

Posted by Venkat at 6/1/2007 8:23 AM | Add Comment

Pleading Matters

Posted by Derek at 5/30/2007 2:57 PM | Add Comment

The Tide Continues: Court Shoots Down Spam Class Action

Posted by Venkat at 5/28/2007 7:06 AM | Add Comment

The Strange Saga of James Gordon

Posted by Venkat at 5/25/2007 6:03 AM | Add Comment

Last Week's CAN-SPAM Ruling

Posted by Venkat at 5/22/2007 7:27 AM | Add Comment

Big CAN-SPAM Ruling

Posted by Venkat at 5/15/2007 9:12 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Spamhaus: Chasing the White Whale?

Posted by Venkat at 5/9/2007 5:55 AM | Add Comment

A CAN-SPAM Case Actually Goes to Trial?

Posted by Venkat at 5/8/2007 8:28 AM | Add Comment

Mumma Takes a Fall

Posted by Venkat at 5/5/2007 1:16 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Utah's Registry: a Financial Quagmire

Posted by Venkat at 5/5/2007 11:58 AM | Add Comment

Turning Junk Mail Into Spam

Posted by Venkat at 5/4/2007 8:03 AM | Add Comment

Unspam's At it Again - the Spam Harvester Lawsuit

Posted by Venkat at 4/26/2007 1:02 PM | Add Comment

The e360 Train Rolls On (for now)

Posted by Venkat at 4/25/2007 9:40 PM | Add Comment

OK Court: Misleading Statement in Email Must Actually Cause Injury

Posted by Venkat at 4/16/2007 3:44 PM | Add Comment

e360 v. Spamhaus: Yet More

Posted by Venkat at 4/16/2007 6:02 AM | Add Comment

Spamfishing

Posted by Venkat at 4/10/2007 11:22 AM | Add Comment

Spamhaus and 230 Immunity

Posted by Venkat at 4/10/2007 6:36 AM | Add Comment

08 Campaign Email Issues

Posted by Venkat at 4/6/2007 6:26 AM | Add Comment

Utah Child Protection Registry Upheld Against CAN-SPAM Preemption, Commerce Clause, and First Amendment Challenges

Posted by Venkat at 3/29/2007 7:22 AM | Add Comment

e360 Sued

Posted by Venkat at 3/26/2007 8:49 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Federal Court Finds no Strict Liability Under CAN-SPAM

Posted by Venkat at 3/8/2007 6:25 AM | Add Comment | Trackbacks
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Media Mentions and Articles

Media Mentions:

The twisted world of online copyright
(Econsultancy; Nov. 11, 2010)

Rise and Fall of a Spam Crusader
(North Coast Journal; Sept. 30, 2010)

Appeals court absolves firm that exposed man's SSN
(The Register; June 4, 2010)

Spam--a Lot
(ABA Journal/Wendy Davis; March 1, 2010)

Texas county to name drunk drivers on Twitter
(SF Gate/IDG News; Dec. 24, 2009)

Starbucks sued after laptop data breach (NetworkWorld.com; Feb. 23, 2009)

Spam pins 'Strong Arm' Missed court date earns Frank Azar judge's reprimand
(Rocky Mountain News)

Microsoft Sues More Hotmail Spammers
(PC World)

Zango Sues Antispyware Vendor PC Tools (InfoWorld)

Software Notebook: Two major spam cases end up in Seattle
(Seattle PI)

Venkat on Copyright and More 1/2
(Rasmus Rasmussen Dot Com; May 22, 2009)

Court Limits Third-Party Text Message Ads
(Inside Counsel; September 1, 2009)

Articles:

CAN-SPAM Put to the Test (cNet; May 22, 2007)

Spyware Skirmishes: Spy Versus Antispy (cNet; June 5, 2007)

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