Jury Finds Lori Drew Not Guilty on Felony Charges
Wired/Threat Level reports: Lori Drew, the 49-year-old woman charged in the first federal cyberbullying case, was cleared of felony computer-hacking charges by a jury Wednesday morning, but convicted...
View ArticleFederal Appeals Court Examines Two MySpace Student Speech Cases
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog and the Legal Intelligencer report that the Third Circuit Court of Appeals has before it two appeals testing the limits of school authority to punish student speech on...
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I sent this list out to the CMLP's team of intrepid bloggers to pique their interest, but with things being a bit slow around the office today, I figured I'd avoid the middleman. Things that caught...
View ArticleDrew (Tentatively) Acquitted in MySpace Suicide Case
A federal judge yesterday tentatively acquitted Lori Drew, the Missouri woman convicted for her involvement in a MySpace “cyberbullying” hoax that allegedly resulted in a young girl’s suicide. If it...
View ArticleJudge Issues Opinion Overturning Lori Drew's Conviction
As originally reported by Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy, a federal district judge in California issued an opinion on Friday overturning the jury verdict finding Lori Drew guilty of a misdemeanor...
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Cyber-Bully Pulpit: Government Sponsored Online Shaming
While a number of businesses and organizations are initiating public servicecampaigns to combat cyberbullying, governments are realizing the utility of online shaming. In response to a rash of recent...
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Showing Cyberbullying No Mercy in the Show Me State
On the broad grade-school spectrum of the bullies and the bullied, I tended to fall closer to the bullied side of things. Fortunately, I quickly proved taller than average — thus harder to intimidate...
View ArticleFinkel v. Facebook: Court Rejects Defamation Claim Against Facebook Premised...
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...
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Keeping Online Speech Outside the Schoolhouse Gate
A freshman at Oak Grove High School in Missouri used Facebook last month to vent about another student: "Wow, [expletive] alert," wrote Megan Wisemore. "You're a skank and I hate you with a...
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Logging In and Lashing Out: 'Crowdsourced retaliation' presents new...
Critics have always run the risk of retaliation. They have not, however, always run the risk of having their personal phone number micro-blogged to over 115,000 people in a split second. For a long...
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An Ounce of Prevention: Protecting yourself against online retaliation
Last week I discussed recent news stories highlighting the dangers of online retaliation. At worst, this form of retaliation chills speech and threatens critical reporting. But short of that, it can...
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Louisiana Joins Unconstitutional Cyber-Bullying Statute Club
The first rule of Unconstitutional Cyber-Bullying Statute Club is you do not talk about Unconstitutional Cyber-Bullying Statute Club. One of the problems with the law is that it does not do a great job...
View ArticleANNOUNCEMENT: Panel and Fundraiser for "Without My Consent"
We would like to congratulate Without My Consent on its one-year anniversary, and announce an exciting event in celebration! Without My Consent is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to...
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Negligence Claims Against Twitter Won't Last
A Tulsa, Oklahoma girl and her mother are suing Booker T. Washington High School and Twitter, alleging that another member of the daughter's basketball team held the daughter while another teammate...
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@Parody or @Crime? AZ Bill May Blur the Line
Arizona State Representative Michelle Ugenti (R-Scottsdale) introduced Arizona House Bill 2004 in December, which would amend Arizona’s criminal code and make it a class 5 felony to impersonate...
View ArticleJury Finds Lori Drew Not Guilty on Felony Charges
Wired/Threat Level reports: Lori Drew, the 49-year-old woman charged in the first federal cyberbullying case, was cleared of felony computer-hacking charges by a jury Wednesday morning, but convicted...
View ArticleFederal Appeals Court Examines Two MySpace Student Speech Cases
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog and the Legal Intelligencer report that the Third Circuit Court of Appeals has before it two appeals testing the limits of school authority to punish student speech on...
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I sent this list out to the CMLP's team of intrepid bloggers to pique their interest, but with things being a bit slow around the office today, I figured I'd avoid the middleman. Things that caught...
View ArticleDrew (Tentatively) Acquitted in MySpace Suicide Case
A federal judge yesterday tentatively acquitted Lori Drew, the Missouri woman convicted for her involvement in a MySpace “cyberbullying” hoax that allegedly resulted in a young girl’s suicide. If it...
View ArticleJudge Issues Opinion Overturning Lori Drew's Conviction
As originally reported by Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy, a federal district judge in California issued an opinion on Friday overturning the jury verdict finding Lori Drew guilty of a misdemeanor...
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