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A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit from the Republican National Committee that claimed Google’s Gmail inappropriately filtered its emails to users’ spam folders leading up to the 2022 midterm elections.
The case was dismissed with prejudice, meaning that the RNC can’t bring its claims to another court, though it can appeal the district court’s opinion. District Court Judge Daniel Calabretta said that the RNC failed to state a claim under California’s Unfair Competition Law and that 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.” Calabretta also said the RNC couldn’t…