IP: NYT: Judge Says School May Have Overreacted to Student's Site

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "Bill Burgos" <onomrbil () gol com>
> Organization: White Bear
> To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> Judge Says School May Have Overreacted to Student's Site
>
> By CARL S. KAPLAN
>
>         In an important case testing the limits of the
>           online free speech rights of students, a federal
>           judge in Seattle has ordered a school district to
>           temporarily refrain from punishing a student who
>           created an "unofficial" Web site for his school.
>
>           In issuing the order on Feb. 23, Chief Judge John
>           Coughenour of the United States District Court for
>           the Western District of Washington concluded that
>           the school's five-day suspension of the student
>           likely violated his right to free speech.
>
>           Nick Emmett, an 18-year-old
>           senior at Kentlake High School in
>           Kent, Wash., created his
>           "Unofficial Kentlake High School
>           Home Page" at home outside of
>           school hours. The site featured
>           mock obituaries of some of
>           Emmett's fellow students.
>
>
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> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/03/cyber/cyberlaw/03law.html
>
> Bill
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