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Another Law Designed to Keep Lawyers in Bidness

pimg alt="425.fourchristmases.vaughn.witherspoon.lc.102308.jpg" src="http://www.quizlaw.com/blog/assets_c/2008/12/425.fourchristmases.vaughn.witherspoon.lc.102308-thumb-220x163-787.jpg" width="220" height="163" class="mt-image-right" /The latest state cyber-a href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stcharles/story/A5F18B865AE42BB6862575220015CFA2?OpenDocument"bullying /alaw is getting its first test in Missouri after a 21-year-old woman threatened a 16-year-old girl via text message and dumped a can of pork and beans on her car. Apparently, the 16-year-old got a lot of vulgar voice mails and one person even threatened rape, all over some boy. Nicole A. Williams was charged with misdemeanor harassment for sending the voice and text messages, as well as letting her friends to do the same. /p pThe law is part of a growing national trend -- 18 states now have laws against cyber-stalking and Internet harassment. Illinois, in fact, has a law going into effect on January 1, stating which prohibits "a website with third-party access that contains 'harassing statements made for the purpose of alarming, tormenting or terrorizing a specific person.'" Hmmm. What if that harassing statements were aimed at the website owner? In fact, a man threatened to kill my family the other day because I dissed both a movie and Santa Claus in my ia href="http://www.pajiba.com/four-christmases-review.htm"Four Christmases review/a/i. /p pPeople take their Christmas movies very seriously. Fortunately, I don't take their death threats with equal measure. /p img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/QuizLawLegalBlog/~4/487937928" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by Quiz Law on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).