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Washington Wins Anti-Spam Case In Summary Judgment
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posted by turmis
on Tuesday September 17, @11:17AM
from the open-season-on-Hormel-Products dept.
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The State of Washington has won its first case enforcing an Anti Spam measure which went into effect on June 11, 1998. The state sued Jason Heckel for violation of the law which makes it illegal to send an e-mail to people in Washington that contains deceptive subject lines, uses a bogus return address or uses a third party's domain name without permission. A Superior Court judge declared summary judgment stating that a civil trial was unneccesary because the government had proven its case and Heckel had violated all three provisions of the law. The Washington law was one of the first in a series of Anti-Spam measures which have now passed in 26 states. The law survived a constitutional challenge...
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