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Federal judge rules nursing student waived free speech rights in violating confidentiality pledge

donal brown April 3, 2012

A former University of Louisville nursing student disciplined for writing about patients on My Space cannot collect damages for violation of her First Amendment rights, a federal judge ruled. The judge noted the student waived her free speech rights when she agreed not to post information about patients on the Internet that could be read by the public. -db From the Chronicle of Higher Education, April 2, 2012, by Nick DeSantis. Full story  

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Supreme Court declines to rule on student free speech on Internet

donal brown January 17, 2012

Despite split rulings in two federal appellate courts, the U.S. Supreme Court will not hear arguments on whether school officials can regulate the off-campus speech of students on the Internet. Two of the three cases under consideration concerned parodies directed at principals while the third involved cruel words directed at another student. -db From the Student Press Law Center, January 17, 2012, by Brian Schraum. Full story  

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Student appeals case involving online speech to U.S. Supreme Court

donal brown October 18, 2011

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide if it will hear a case from West Virginia in which a student was disciplined for making hurtful comments about another student on MySpace. Citing Tinker v. Des Moines, the administration said the comments could cause disruption at school. The student’s petition asks the Court to decide if the substantial disruption standard from Tinker applies to online speech and to clarify the meaning of the term, substantial disruption. -db

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Student free speech takes another pasting in ruling on Internet postings

donal brown August 2, 2011

A federal appeals court ruled that students can be punished at school for their postings on MySpace even if the postings are made off campus in the students’ own time. The court found that the postings were disruptive to the school according to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines. Frank LoMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law Center, thought it was wrong to apply Tinker to off-campus speech and also

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Internet freedom reaffirmed in recent Chicago case

donal brown January 27, 2011

While the Blockowicz parents suffered greatly from scurrilous posts about their daughter, First Amendment Center’s Douglas Lee says their attempt to force a website to remove the posts was rightly denied in federal court thus making the internet “an even freer environment for speech.” -db First Amendment Center Commentary January 27, 2011 By Douglas Lee Speech in the United States never has been freer than it is now on the Internet. In every other mass

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