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The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday declined to consider reinstating Virginia's tough anti-spam law, leaving in place a lower court ruling that threw out the measure as unconstitutional.The high court's decision ends the legal odyssey of the 2003 anti-spam law, one of the nation's first, which was intended to crack down on people who send masses of unwanted e-mail. The Virginia Supreme Court in September ruled that the law violated the First Amendment right to freedom of speech.
But First Amendment scholars said the state court's decision was legally sound. In addition, Internet law experts said it is not likely to increase spam in Virginia because federal law also prohibits spam, spam filters screen out much of it and expert spammers often are out of the country. The Supreme Court, as is its custom, did not give a reason for declining to take the case.
