By Rhonda Denny, Esq. In an increasingly common scenario, a teenage girl takes a sexually suggestive naked or semi-naked picture of herself and sends it from her cell phone to her boyfriend’s cell phone. They break up and the boyfriend passes along the picture to his friends, and eventually the picture is passed along by [...]
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It’s only appropriate that this new blog, “Substantial Disruption,” be officially launched on the 40th birthday of Tinker v Des Moines Independent Community School District, the seminal case in the of freedom of expression by students in American public schools. In fact, this blog takes its name from the “substantial disruption” test laid down by [...]
Ryan Graves Staff Writer The first film that kicked off the Leonard A. Oakland Film Festival impressed the audience on Friday night. The film was based on the book “Soul Searching: the Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers,” by Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton. The documentary was made by Mike and Tim Eaton, [...]
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By 365gay Newscenter Staff 02.23.2009 1:35pm EST (Washington) The Supreme Court said Monday that it would not take the case of a Kentucky high school student who wants to sue his school district over a policy that allegedly barred him from expressing opposition to homosexuality. The justices did not comment in denying the appeal of [...]
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© 2009 Student Press Law Center February 19, 2009 WASHINGTON – Students, newspaper advisers, school board representatives, and First Amendment advocates filed into a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington yesterday to debate, for the third year in a row, the merits of student free press legislation in their state. Senate Bill 5946, introduced this [...]
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