Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Judge Sstrikes down anti-spam law

<A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1741124,00.asp">A judge has ruled</A> that Maryland's anti-spam law, the first state law to penalize senders of junk e-mail, is unconstitutional because it seeks to regulate commerce outside the state's borders. Last week's ruling, which threw out a lawsuit against a New York email marketer, effectively overturns Maryland's 2002 Commercial Electronic Mail Act.

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