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Virginia Supreme Court rules in favor of spammer

Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s anti-spam laws are in fact unconstitutional as they violate free-speech protections of the First Amendment.

This is a major victory for spammers like Jeremy Jaynes who would benefit from this ruling.

Jeremy Jaynes in fact has his conviction reversed. He is one of the most well known spammers in the world.

He had claimed in courts that the laws were in violation of his free speech protections under the First Amendment.

Justice G. Steven Agee spoke on this judgment that the state’s spam law “is unconstitutionally overbroad on its face because it prohibits the anonymous transmission of all unsolicited bulk e-mails, including those containing political, religious or other speech protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”

Jaynes’ attorney, Thomas M. Wolf added: “In my view, the case was never about Jeremy Jaynes — it was about the First Amendment. The argument was never that there’s a constitutional right to send commercial spam. It was that the government cannot criminalize the sending of noncommercial e-mail for political and religious purposes, and that is what this statute did.”