Gambling Suit Against Search Engines to Proceed
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Web Gambling Advertising Suit Against Search Engines Allowed to Proceed
Web Gambling Advertising Suit Against Search Engines Allowed to Proceed
Story Text:
John Ottaviani, guesting at Eric Goldman's site reports that a complaint that Yahoo! Google, OV and pretty much everyone else in that bag allowed illegal internet advertising of Gambling sites in California will be allowed to proceed.
John Ottaviani, guesting at Eric Goldman's site reports that a complaint that Yahoo! Google, OV and pretty much everyone else in that bag allowed illegal internet advertising of Gambling sites in California will be allowed to proceed.
The complaint alleges that Yahoo!, Google, Overture, Ask Jeeves, LookSmart, AltaVista, Terra Lycos, Jupiter, FindWhat, Kanoodle, Business.com and Sex.com violated California law by providing paid or "sponsored" advertisements in violation of the California Penal Code provisions and the California Unlawful Business Practices Act. Google and Yahoo! reportedly have since abandoned gambling advertisements, but are still subject to the lawsuit for their prior actions.
- Y! MyWeb
Not much news in this
They tried to get an instant dismissal. The suit has virtually no merit, but they will be allowed to make their case, and waste tax dollars in the process.
I agree with Ssite
?The case has no legal merit.
However, legal merit means very little in a case like this...
The premise of this whole thing is that the state would not take criminal action (because there is no merit to the case). So a group of private citizens (religious groups) is suing google, yahoo, M$N and others in civil court because they say these internet companies broke a criminal law. (That the state refuses prosecute).