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Not particularly surprising, no attorneys for the defendants were present during a bench trial in November and the judgments were entered by default.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what may be the largest judgment in a suit against spammers so far, a company that offers subscribers an e-mail service in Iowa has been awarded more than a billion dollars by a federal judge; the allegations were that the company&rsquo;s servers were inundated with as many as 10 million spam e-mails a day&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,1],"tags":[116,187,297],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Judge Awards $1 Billion in Spam Suit - Legal Bytes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/legalbytes.com\/2005\/01\/25\/judge-awards-1-billion-in-spam-suit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Judge Awards $1 Billion in Spam Suit - Legal Bytes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In what may be the largest judgment in a suit against spammers so far, a company that offers subscribers an e-mail service in Iowa has been awarded more than a billion dollars by a federal judge; 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