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Jan. 29, 2009

One-Sided Battles

Two California default judgments totaling $1.1 billion are among the largest awards last year.

Suits filed by social networking sites against Internet spam senders accused of breaking federal law resulted in two massive default judgments in 2008 totaling $1.1 billion.

In April, MySpace won a case filed in Los Angeles under a federal anti-spamming law for $230 million. Then, in November, Facebook followed suit in San Jose, winning $873 million in a dispute filed under the same 2003 statute.

Those verdicts dwarfed the previous record, a $10 million award fr...

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