An internet service provider that has brought more than 20 lawsuits alleging
spam abuses has been ordered to pay one of the defendants almost $807,000 for
filing "groundless claims" that mired the company in years of costly litigation.
The $806,978.84 judgment was filed against Asis Internet Services, the same
tiny ISP that earlier this month won an award of nearly $2.6m in a separate spam
lawsuit. In the most recent case, Magistrate Judge Joseph C Spero of the US
District Court of Northern California faulted Asis for pressing on with its case
without proof that defendant Azoogle.com was the party that procured the spam at
issue.
