Religion & Law

"Conflicting opinions complicate students' cases"
"Conflicting opinions complicate students' cases": Today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Paula Reed Ward has an article that begins, "A federal appeals court Thursday issued what could be conflicting opinions on cases that involve students creating parody profiles on social networking sites...

"Rulings Leave Online Student Speech Rights Unresolved"
"Rulings Leave Online Student Speech Rights Unresolved": David Kravets has this post at Wired.com's "Threat Level" blog. And at "The School Law Blog" of Education Week, Mark Walsh has a post titled "MySpace Parodies of Principals Yield Differing Court Rulings...

"Rulings cloud issue of school MySpace suspensions"
"Rulings cloud issue of school MySpace suspensions": The Associated Press has this report. And Paula Reed Ward of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a news update headlined "Appeals court: MySpace parody is protected speech...

Government checking law students' MySpace pages
The recent report on political bias in hiring of law students at DOJ, mentioned below by Brad, reveals that the federal government, as an employer, was poking around in the law student applicants' MySpace pages...

MySpace crimes
Two interesting pieces of news to note relating to people using MySpace for criminal purposes. The first, is a ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Doe v. MySpace Inc that predictably held that MySpace is immune under s 230 of the Communications Decency Act...

MySpace Sexual Assault Case Thrown Out by Fifth Circuit
As prosecutors seek to prove a difficult criminal theory in the Lori Drew MySpace case, here, MySpace won a critical case against it in New Orleans. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that MySpace could not be sued by a Texas girl and her family over a sexual assault by a man [...

Parody is a Protected Form of Speech
Targets of criticism seek to shut down Internet sites that poke fun

F-1 Visas
Visas for Foreign Students

Specialty Lamp International
Recalls Counterfeit Circuit Breakers

Yellow Pages
Directory Billing agrees $400,000 deceptive marketing settlement.

Restaurant Staff
Win Lawsuit Suit Against Employer for Infiltrating their MySpace Forum

Free Speech
Canterbury agrees to pay $60,000 settlement in civil rights lawsuit.

MySpace Spam
Spammers to pay $230 million settlement in e-mailing lawsuit.

Indianapolis
alleging the city's police are overly aggressive against the homeless in violation of the protection of free speech and unreasonable searches guaranteed in the US Constitution.