State sues company over no-fax law

December 15, 2008

Indiana has filed a lawsuit against the largest alleged violator in the two-year history of the state’s no-fax law, Attorney General Steve Carter announced Sunday.The lawsuit, filed Friday in Hamilton Circuit Court, accuses Texas-based Envarion Corp. of sending thousands of junk faxes across the state and thus violating a state law that prohibits unsolicited faxes.

Carter said his office has received 1,842 complaints against Envarion from Hoosiers in 57 of the state’s 92 counties.”This company would send out blasts of faxes throughout Indiana,” Carter said. “People don’t want these faxes. They are a violation of our law, and we brought this legal action to force their compliance.”

Officials for Envarion could not be reached for comment Sunday. According to state law, the company could be fined up to $1,500 per violation — or a total of more than $2.7 million. Carter said the lawsuit was filed in Hamilton County because several complainants and witnesses who kept copies of the faxes live there.

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