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Some time ago, Comcast got sued by a spammer, because they were blocking his spam emails.
On April 10, a judge ruled in favor of Comcast. That's of course how it should be, but unfortunately, not all judges are sufficiently clued-in about things computer-related...
The best thing about the ruling are the first two sentences:
Plaintiff e360Insight, LLC is a marketer. It refers to itself as an Internet marketing company. Some, perhaps even a majority of people in this country, would call it a spammer.
Not surprisingly, the spammer didn't like being called a spammer, so they filed a motion to remove the second sentence. Of course, the motion was denied