United States District Court
Northern District of Illinois
Eastern Division
e360 Insight, LLC et al JUDGMENT IN A CIVIL CASE
v. Case Number: 06 C 3958
The Spamhaus Project
- Jury Verdict. This action came before the Court for a trial by jury. The issues have been
tried and the jury rendered its verdict.
- Decision by Court. This action came to trial or hearing before the Court. The issues have been tried or heard and a decision has been rendered.
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that default judgment is entered in favor of the plaintiffs and against defendant for compensatory damages totaling $11,715,000.00, and $1,971.05 in litigation costs.
The Court enters a permanent injunction as follows:
1. Spamhaus shall not take any action to cause email sent by Plaintiffs or their affiliates, subsidiaries, or related companies owned or controlled by Plaintiffs to be blocked, delayed, altered, or interrupted in any way (including, without limitation, by listing Plaintiffs on Spamhaus’s ROKSO list, within an SBL listing on Spamhaus’s website, using blacklisting technology in concert or conjunction with others, or taking any other action to cause any such interference) unless Spamhaus can demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that Plaintiffs have violated relevant United States law. Such clear and convincing evidence may only be shown after proving Plaintiffs with an opportunity to review any alleged offending email, including a review of the email header and content (in its entirety), and providing Plaintiffs with an opportunity to show the offending email was not sent in violation of United States law to the satisfaction of a reasonable person. If such clear and convincing evidence is shown, then and only then may Spamhaus list the Internet Protocol (IP) address, and only the IP address, from which the offending email was sent on its website.
2. Spamhaus shall not list entire networks or ranges of IP addresses owned or operated by Plaintiffs simply because they are registered in the Plaintiffs’ names or physical addresses without meeting the clear and convincing standard for the IP address in question.
3. Spamhaus shall post, within five business days of the date of this order, on its website at both the main home page and at the ROKSO jump page, a message of 1 inch by 1 inch, the text of which is to be reasonably approved by Plaintiffs, and which, generally, indicates that Plaintiffs were erroneously listed on the website as spammers and that Plaintiffs are not spammers.
Defendant Spamhaus shall leave such message on its site for a period of six months.
4. Spamhaus shall not contact or cause others to contact any customers or suppliers of the Plaintiffs in efforts to cause said customers or suppliers to cease doing business with Plaintiffs.
5. Spamhaus shall not contact or cause others to contact any customers or suppliers of Plaintiffs and allege or assert that Plaintiffs are spammers or other like term.
Michael W. Dobbins, Clerk of Court
Date: September 13, 2006 ________________________________
/s/ Stephen C. Tokoph, Deputy Clerk
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