A federal judge in Georgia threw out an AT&T wireless spamming la...
A federal judge in Georgia threw out an AT&T wireless spamming lawsuit against a vacation timeshare broker on grounds that AT&T failed to prove the broker was the party responsible for flooding AT&T customers’ cellphones with spam text messages.…
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AT&T told the U.S. District Court, Atlanta, that C&C Global Enterprises sent a flood of spam text messages through its wireless network to its customers, violating U.S. and Georgia anti-spam and consumer protection laws (Case 1:06-CV-2733-TWT). The defendants sought dismissal, saying AT&T sued the wrong party. They said they are not corporate residents of Georgia and bought their Georgia sales leads from third parties. They said they never knowingly accepted sales leads whose pursuit would violate anti-spam or consumer laws. The court said AT&T failed to make a substantial case against C&C’s claim that it was an unknowing recipient of unlawful sales leads provided by others.