07/01/2010
US Court Awards Internet Service Provider $2,596,020 in Damages in Spam Email Case (E-Commerce Law Reports)
The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (‘the CAN-SPAM Act'), 15 U.S.C. §§ 7701, et seq, established a code of conduct for the transmission of unsolicited commercial email to US citizens. The US District Court for the Northern District of California (‘the Court') recently applied the CAN-SPAM Act in Asis Internet Services, Inc. v. Richard Rausch, et al. Its judgment demonstrates that, seven years after its enactment, courts continue to struggle with ambiguities in the Act.
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