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Blogger Beware?

By NormPattis

A recent case involving the First Amendment rights of students raises potentially troubling questions about the extent to which opinion on the blogosphere can support discipline, not just by school administrators, but also, potentially, by bar disciplinary officials. At issue is whether items in the blogosphere ever really touch down in areas warranting discipline. Avery Doninger is a high school student at Lewis S. Mills High School in Burlington, Connecticut. She disagreed with a position taken by school administrators regarding when and under what circumstances a "battle of the bands" event could take place on school grounds. Ms. Doninger took to the blogosphere, calling school administrators "douchebags" [sic] and encouraging others to contact the school to "piss her [an administrator] off even more...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on September 03, 2007 (boomark / email).