Court upholds Washington state e-mail rules
BETTER MIND YOUR MANNERS if you plan to send unsolicited e-mail into the state of Washington.
A Washington law governing unsolicited commercial e-mail was upheld last month in a unanimous opinion by the state Supreme Court. That law, the Commercial Electronic Mail Act, prohibits misrepresentation in the subject line or transmission path of e-mail sent to state residents.
The nine-person court rejected a lower court’s view that the act violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. What’s more, the local benefits of the law
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