Supreme Court Says Institutions Can Block E-Mail

[mandy]

Austin, Texas-based White Buffalo, which operates LonghornSingles.com, said its e-mail complied with all anti-spam laws and argued that the federal Can-Spam Act of 2003 overrides the university's anti-spam policy.

The University of Texas was within its rights to block unsolicited e-mail coming into its system, even if the e-mail didn't break the law, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday...

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Legal Decisions Bolster CAN-SPAM Act

Court decisions recognizing the CAN-SPAM Act, which is now almost two years old, have been few and far between. However, recent actions have made up for lost time, say proponents of the law. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the Fifth Circuit Court's summary judgment that the University of Texas had properly acted when it blocked spam, allowing the lower court's order to stand.

Although it constitutes one of the few pieces of established case law on spam, the decision does not break much new ground...

"All it establishes is that certain Web sites can eliminate spam from their sites. The bigger test -- and one that we seem to be failing right now -- is whether we can ever shut down unsolicited e-mail by criminalizing it."

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