E-Mail Service’s CAN-SPAM Standing Stripped in Light of Gordon v. Virtumundo

A company that provides some access to internet content through web hosting and e-mail is not an “internet access service,” and as such lacks standing to bring a claim under the CAN-SPAM Act, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington held March 23, reversing a prior decision (Haselton v. Quicken Loans Inc.).

In October, the court ruled that the company was an “internet access service” because it provided some means of internet access. It was not an ISP, the court said, but ruled then that the CAN-SPAM‘s definition of internet access service ...