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An exercise we did Friday at Univeristy of Nevada, Reno's High School Journalism Day raised
an interesting legal question: can a public university restrict its
students' use of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter?
Back in February, Denise Finkel, a 2008 graduate of Oceanside High School on Long Island, sued four of her former high school classmates and their parents after the students created a private
Facebook group called "90 Cents Short of a Dollar," which allegedly
contained false and defamatory statements about her.
The Supreme Court once famously said that public school students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist., 393 U.S.
In a recent decision, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Colorado District Court’s rejection of a student’s First Amendment and Equal Protection claims over a forced apology resulting from her valedictory address. The case, Corder v
On May 21, 2009, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court quashed a search warrant for the computers, electronic equipment, and digital storage devices of a Boston College computer science student and ordered the seized items returned.
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