Supreme Court turns down Virginia spam case

Anti-spam activists lost a major case last week when the Supreme Court decided against restoring Virginia's anti-spam law. The high court's decision leaves in place a Virginia Supreme Court decision that the law was unconstitutional because it prohibited political, religious and other messages in addition to commercial solicitations.

The decision also means the conviction of Jeremy Jaynes will be overturned for sending hundreds of thousands of emails per day, using stolen email lists, reports the National Journal.

Anti-spam activists were unhappy with the Supreme Court's decision. "While we believe the lower court's ruling to be flawed, the absence of a Virginia state law does not permit criminals to use ISPs' networks to transmit unsolicited commercial e-mail," said Kate Dean, executive director of the U.S. Internet Service Provider Association.

For more on this spam decision:
- check out this TechDailyDose.NationalJournal.com article

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