Virginia officials can recraft anti-spam law, experts say

Virginia lawmakers probably will be able to draft a new version of the anti-spam law struck down by the Virginia Supreme Court without infringing on constitutional free-speech protections, two legal experts said.

The state’s high court delivered a unanimous ruling Friday that overturned the nine-year sentence of Jeremy Jaynes, the spam king who fraudulently used America Online servers to send tens of thousands of junk e-mails, also known as “spam,” from his Raleigh, N.C., home. Jaynes’ 2004 felony conviction was the first of its kind in the United States.