Georgia § 16-9-105 - Civil actions.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 16-9-105 — Civil actions., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 16-9-105. Civil actions.
The following persons shall have standing to assert a civil action under this part: Any e-mail service provider whose protected computer was used to send, receive, or transmit an e-mail that was sent in violation of this part; and A domain owner of any e-mail address to which a deceptive commercial e-mail is sent in violation of this part, provided that the domain owner also owns a protected computer at which the e-mail was received. Any person who has standing and who suffers personal, property, or economic damage by reason of a violation of any provision of this part may initiate a civil action for and recover the greater of: Five thousand dollars plus expenses of litigation and reasonable attorney's fees; Liquidated damages of $1,000.00 for each offending commercial e-mail, up to a limit of $2 million per incident, plus expenses of litigation and reasonable attorney's fees; or Actual damages, plus expenses of litigation and reasonable attorney's fees. (Code 1981, § 16-9-105 , enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 199, § 4/SB 62.)
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