[IP] Appeals Court Weighs Teen's Web Speech

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Matt Murray [mattm@optonline.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:07 AM
To: David Farber
Subject: Appeals Court Weighs Teen's Web Speech

NEW YORK - A teen who used vulgar slang in an Internet blog to complain
about school administrators shouldn't have been punished by the school, her
lawyer told a federal appeals court.

But a lawyer for the Burlington, Conn., school told the 2nd U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals on Tuesday that administrators should be allowed to act if
such comments are made on the Web.

Avery Doninger, 17, claims officials at Lewis S. Mills High School violated
her free speech rights when they barred her from serving on the student
council because of what she wrote from her home computer.
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http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-student-speech,0,2344917.story


Matt Murray
MattM@optonline.net


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