The headline of this recent blog post by the U.S. government promises to answer the question of why you should do some social media estate planning. But the post falls short of providing a compelling reason to plan for how your social media accounts and other digital assets should be handled in the event of [...]
Archive for the ‘Spam’ Category
Yahoo not liable for blocking marketing email
March 23rd, 2011
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Section 230 of Communications Decency Act (47 U.S.C. 230) shields Yahoo’s spam filtering efforts Holomaxx v. Yahoo, 2011 WL 865794 (N.D.Cal. March 11, 2011) Plaintiff provides email marketing services for its clients. It sends out millions of emails a day, many of those to recipients having Yahoo email addresses. Yahoo used its spam filtering technology [...]
State law spam claim in federal court not pled with required particularity
July 13th, 2010
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Hypertouch, Inc. v. Azoogle.com, Inc., 2010 WL 2712217 (9th Cir. July 9, 2010) Pleading in federal court is generally a straightforward matter. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8 requires only that the plaintiff set forth a short and plain statement as to why that party is entitled to relief. But in cases involving fraud, there [...]
Government spam blocking not a violation of First Amendment right to petition
November 6th, 2008
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Ferrone v. Onorato, No. 07-4299, 2008 WL 4763257 (3rd Cir. October 31, 2008) The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a county government did not violate a citizen’s First Amendment right to petition the government for a redress of greivences when the county set its spam filters to block all email from the [...]
Court: Send spam to Washington state and you can be sued there
December 22nd, 2005
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Leaving a thin slice: CAN-SPAM does not completely preempt Washington state law
July 14th, 2005
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