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Podcast Ipsa Loquitur: New Jury Rules, Legal Comedy Website, and Schools Spying on Students

By Josh Camson

New Jury Rules
These are a model set of jury instructions to give jurors more specific guidelines on what they can and cannot do before and after a case.
The rules are nothing new. They are already told not to talk about the case, and these rules just make sure people don’t do it with a different medium. Huma thinks it’s important that jurors be told not to investigate the case on the Internet. Josh thinks this is all pretty obvious and people should know not to talk about cases, but agrees that googling things is the bigger issue.

New Comedy Website
Overheard in Court is Texts from Last Night for lawyers. They run the gamut for level of humor, but most are pretty fun. Huma thinks that the hilarity in the courtroom is under appreciated. Huma knows a lot about this because she apparently listens to oral argument recordings for fun. Josh tried doing it, but technical difficulties prevented him.

Schools Spying on Students
The Lower Merion school district gave its students laptops and then spied on them hardcore allegedly used those webcams to see what students were doing. Huma thinks this is unconstitutional, Josh thinks that constitutional or not, it’s just immoral! Gizmodo has more. It’s a good thing Huma’s school wasn’t looking at her, because apparently she looks at all sorts of crazy stuff on the Internet.

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Full post as published by Social Media Law Student on March 13, 2010 (boomark / email).