Parker v. C.N. Enterprises Press Release - 11/17/97

In a Travis County District Court yesterday, Judge Suzanne Covington granted judgment against California spammer Craig Nowak. Nowak, who did not appear at this Austin, Texas hearing, was ordered to pay more than $13,000 in actual damages and $5,000 in attorney's fees, and forbidden to engage in similar spam activities in the future.

Successful plaintiffs in the suit were Patrick and Tracy LaQuey Parker, owners of the flowers.com domain used without permission by Nowak in a large scale unsolicited commercial electronic mailing, their business partner Peter Rauch, and Zilker Internet Park, the Parkers' Internet Service Provider, whose operations were shut down for several hours due to flowers.com
mail volume generated by Nowak's actions. Two Internet organizations, Texas ISP Association (TISPA) and EFF-Austin, participated on behalf of their members.

The plaintiffs were represented by Pete Kennedy and Roger Williams, attorneys with George, Donaldson & Ford. Information on the topic is maintained at: URL:http://www.zilker.net/nospam/.