At 8:41 AM -0700 5/5/04, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: [...]
The cases against MAPS say essentially nothing about what any court accepted except at the vaguest sort of level. No court decided anything beyond pre-trial matters in any of the suits against MAPS. All those cases proved is that it is a bad idea to beg to be sued by companies that might do so with no intention of ever going to trial.The cases against MAPS clearly show that the courts did not accept this argument.
Do you have any useful legal citation for that? Such as an actual instance of a court ruling so, rather than just ruling (e.g. in a preliminary stage) that it's not a facially absurd argument?Publishing information with the intention that it be used to block mail can constitute a tort.