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IP: NYT: Judge Says School May Have Overreacted to Student's Site
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 07:15:52 -0500
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. <snip> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/03/cyber/cyberlaw/03law.html Bill onomrbil () gol com mailto:onomrbil () gol com
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