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U.S. 9th Circuit Questions Use of "Professional" CAN-SPAM Complaint Mills

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source:Lexology, August 18, 2009.

9th Circuit deals blow to "professional" CAN-SPAM complaint mills
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has decided Gordon v. Virtumundo, Inc. in a manner that deals a serious, perhaps fatal, blow to the ability of ?professional plaintiff? anti-spam activists to collect unsolicited commercial e-mails, or 'spam,' and bring costly, settlement-inducing suits under the federal CAN-SPAM Act."

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on August 18, 2009 (boomark / email).