Managers and the Legal Environment 7th Edition by David Madsen, Constance Bagley

Exercise 14

Virginia passed a statute that made it a crime to falsify the transmission information in any unsolicited e-mail message. The only way to send an anonymous e-mail message is to employ false routing information, such as the sender's domain name or Internet service provider address. Virginia construed the law as a prohibition on lying to commit trespass, that is, the unauthorized use of e-mail servers. Is the Virginia statute a valid exercise of state power? [Jaynes v. Virginia, 666 S.E.2d 303 (Va. 2008).]