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Can we use Small Claims to fight other injustices? How about going after companies that sell your email address? Edit: for the downvoters: it is a genuine ques
by ajays 15y ago
Can we use Small Claims to fight other injustices? How about going after companies that sell your email address?
Edit: for the downvoters: it is a genuine question.
- dangrossman 15y ago> companies that sell your email address What monetary damages can you prove you suffered?
- ajays 15y agoNot monetary per se, but how about time wasted due to the spam? What if I control my own domain, and have to spend time fighting this spam?
- dangrossman 15y agoWe're talking about civil court here. Money is what you go to court to get. What do you want the judge to do if you win? He's handling traffic tickets and landlord disputes... then he gets to you. He's not going to try to make up some equation of how much your time pressing the delete button on your e-mail client is worth.
- electromagnetic 15y agoDepends where you are. Here in Ontario small claims court doesn't handle traffic tickets or landlord disputes. They handle things like suing your mechanic, or a business owner suing a deadbeat. However, they still don't have the time to process your claim for damages awarded for loss of time due to junk email. Sorry, but I can't sue for the actual junk mail I get that actually causes physical expenses like garbage disposal/recycling plus time. However a judge is going to be royally pissed if I'm suing for the disposal costs of junk mail (probably a maximum of $5 a year at the dump)
- kd0amg 15y agoSeen any of Bennett Haselton's stories on slashdot?
- hippich 15y agoFrom what I understood, small claims court are limited to monetary damages only. I.e. if you can not clearly show what monetary damage you suffered, there is no small claim case.