Mealey's (September 26, 2017, 1:14 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California law that prohibits the sending of fraudulent, unsolicited emails provides for liability only against the advertisers whose ads are contained in the messages, not the entity that sent them, a California federal judge ruled Sept. 22, granting a Nevada firm’s motion to dismiss a spam claim against it (Mira Blanchard, et al. v. Fluent Inc., et al., No. 3:17-cv-04497, N.D. Calif., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 155535)....