A federal judge on July 31 tossed a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) over Google routing the RNC’s emails to recipients’ spam folders.
The RNC failed to state a claim under California Unfair Competition Law (UCL) or for intentional interference with economic relations, U.S. District Judge Daniel Calabretta ruled.
“While the RNC may be correct that Google’s alleged conduct (if proven) is ‘unfair’ in a colloquial sense, the RNC is unable to point to any legislative policy that is implicated by the alleged conduct. Nor can it point to a sufficient harm to users of Gmail—which is the focus of the UCL—that would suggest Google’s practices are unfair. And the RNC has not shown that  Google’s alleged conduct has violated any other law, which is a necessary element of intentional interference with economic relations,” the judge said in a 27-page decision….