Court Tosses 17 Class Action Lawsuits

The plaintiffs submitted no less than 17 class action lawsuits against Email spammers, claiming the time necessary to delete the junk mail would be 200,000 hours, or 9 hours a day*365 days* 60 years. Judge Ofer Grosskopf of the Central District Court threw out the lawsuits on principle: All suits were phrased the same way, and the spam companies were not forewarned. “An abuse of the class action lawsuit concept,” wrote Grosskopf.