Declan McCullagh writes today about the VA anti-spam law being overturned by the state supreme court. What’s notable about this law, and what made it vulnerable to First Amendment challenge, are two characteristics. The first is that it applies to the falsification of e-mail information, which could sweep in both spammers and, say, someone using a pen name or pseudonym. And we know, despite...
John Levine has a insightful review of the recent ruling against the VA anti-spam law.
The Virginia Supreme Court overturned the 2003 state law prohibiting sending unsolicited bulk email using false routing information, including phony domain names or IP addresses. “That statute is unconstitutionally overbroad on its face,” the ruling concludes, “because it prohibits the anonymous transmission of all unsolicited bulk e-mails including those containing political...
Spamhaus filed a motion today asking the judge to dismiss the e360 v. Spamhaus case for contempt. Mickey, as usual, has the docs up. I have not posted much on the case recently, as there was only legal wrangling about discovery going on. The biggest problem being that e360 has dragged their feet, stalled and avoided discovery for the last 8 months. They have missed deadlines, turned over...
Venkat has a discussion of authentication needed to present emails to a judge when asking for a summary judgment.
E360 has asked for their suit against 3 anti-spammers to be dropped with prejudice. Docs at Spamsuite, commentary at The Spam Diaries.
Mickey asks if you want to be the sender that funds the lawsuit that establishes case law about your new, nifty process.
Israel has passed a new anti-spam law requiring senders to only send opt-in email, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Yahoo filed suit against spammers using the Yahoo trademarks in lottery spam on May 19th.
MySpace has won a 234 million dollar judgment against Walt Rines and Sanford Wallace. “MySpace has zero tolerance for those who attempt to act illegally on our site,” [MySpace Chief Privacy officer] Nigam said in a statement. “We remain committed to punishing those who violate the law and try to harm our members.” These are two of the spammers responsible for me learning...
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