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Student Press Law Center asks federal appeals court to reconsider decision on free speech for college students

donal brown March 1, 2012

The Student Press Law Center is asking the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its ruling that would severely restrain free speech for students at public colleges. In January, the court ruled that Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, a U.S. Supreme Court decision  on speech rights for high school students, applied to college student speech. -db From a press release from the Student Press Law Center, February 28, 2012. Full release    

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Indiana high school newspaper adviser sues over suspension

donal brown January 12, 2012

An Indiana journalism adviser sued the Greater Clark County Schools claiming the the high school’s administrators were suspending her for her support of student’s First Amendment rights. The school suspended her claiming that in 2008 she had mismanaged the yearbook, but the adviser said the suspension came after the administrators objected to stories about security cameras and student discipline and tried to install prior review which she opposed. -db From the Student Press Law Center,

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Press freedom award goes to college newspaper in Southern California

donal brown October 4, 2011

The Sun of Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California has been awarded the 2011 College Press Freedom Award from the Student Press Law Center and the Associated Collegiate Press. The editors and staff continued to publish The Sun as the administration ordered it shut down. “The administrators of Southwestern College threw everything they had at these journalists, even threatening them with a trumped-up criminal investigation, and through it all, the journalists kept on doing exactly

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Student Press Law Center files amicus in suit challenging secret admissions program at U. of Illinois

donal brown August 22, 2011

With media partners the Student Press Law Center has filed an amicus brief to a federal appeals court arguing that a lower court ruled correctly in granting the Chicago Tribune access to public records about a secret University of Illinois admissions program. The university argued that the records should be withheld on grounds of “student confidentiality.” The brief reads, “For far too long, colleges and schools have been hiding behind bogus claims of ‘student privacy’

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Minnesota court invokes Tinker in upholding punishment of student for off-campus speech

donal brown July 18, 2011

In one of the first cases concerning off-campus speech of college students, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled that the University of Minnesota was justified in disciplining a former student in the mortuary program for her Facebooks posts in 2009. The university claimed the student violated the student code of conduct and gave her a failing grade in her anatomy-laboratory class and put her on academic probation for the rest of her undergraduate years. In

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