Education Law, Constitutional Law, Communications & Media Law

Sixth Circuit Rules School’s Search Of Student Cellphone Violated Fourth Amendment

by Jackie Wernz | Franczek Radelet P.C. on 4/24/2013

In a recent decision, the first federal appellate court to address the rights of school officials to search student cell phones held that a student’s violation of a school rule regarding technology did not justify a general...more

Be Careful When Searching Student Cell Phones, Sixth Circuit Warns

by David G. King, Christopher M. Trebilcock | Miller Canfield on 4/2/2013

With text messages, Tweets, Facebook posts and other digital communications so prevalent in student’s lives, schools have been struggling to deal with the influx of mobile devices on campus. Last week, the Sixth U.S. Circuit...more

#Edchat Followup: Legal Issues For BYOD And 1:1 Programs In Schools

by Jackie Wernz | Franczek Radelet P.C. on 2/12/2013

Each Tuesday the #Edchat hashtag brings together educators from across the globe to discuss education-related topics on Twitter. Last week one of the questions on #Edchat was “How do we train educators to teach in programs...more

Employers Can Discipline Employees For Certain Social Media Activity

by Beth P. Zoller | XpertHR - Partnered with LexisNexis on 1/24/2013

A handful of cases handed down by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has left employers wondering whether they have any rights at all to regulate, monitor and discipline employees for what they post on Facebook and...more

New Jersey District Dismisses Teacher Who Called Students “Future Criminals” On Facebook

by Jackie Wernz | Franczek Radelet P.C. on 1/22/2013

Earlier this month, a New Jersey appellate court affirmed the dismissal of a tenured teacher for comments she made about her students on Facebook. Good summaries of the case, In re O’Brien, can be found through the National...more

Students First Amendment Rights And The Schoolhouse Gate.

by James G. Ryan | Cullen and Dykman LLP on 12/21/2012

The ability of school officials to limit student free speech has been a matter of significant debate since the seminal case of Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969). In Tinker the...more

Public University Lawfully Terminated HR Vice President Who Published Op-Ed Insensitive To Homosexuals

by Brian J. Kurtz | FordHarrison on 12/19/2012

The University of Toledo terminated an Associate Vice President for Human Resources after she wrote an op-ed column arguing that homosexuals could choose their sexual orientation and thus were not entitled to the same...more

Social Media Makes It Tougher to ‘Speak Out of School’

by Lawyers.com on 8/8/2012

Drama, chatter and gossiping between kids at school doesn’t stop when they leave the schoolyard, and it never has. In the Mesozoic era before the Internet, the conversation continued on party lines and during sleepovers. As...more

Pridgen v. University of Calgary, 2012 ABCA 139

by Field Law on 7/12/2012

Two students found guilty of non-academic misconduct by university on account of Facebook postings derogatory towards instructor. On judicial review, university decision quashed by Alberta Court of Queen's Bench under...more

Minnesota Supreme Court Upholds University’s Right to Discipline Student Over Cadaver-Related Facebook Posts

by Franczek Radelet P.C. on 6/26/2012

In the continuing saga involving the intersection of social media, university policy, and student speech rights, a public university’s right to discipline students for social media activity has been further defined and...more

Can Your School Suspend You for a Facebook Post?

by Lawyers.com on 6/19/2012

A school district in Indiana last month finally settled a free-speech dispute over suspensions it handed out to two students who had posted revealing photos of themselves online. How much control can schools actually exert...more

Jackson Walker VIA Media Postcard - August 2011

by Jackson Walker on 9/1/2011

In This Issue: - Chip Babcock Communique In Missouri, That's Not What Friends Are For — In an effort to protect students, recently passed legislation in Missouri limits a teacher's ability to interact with students...more

Corporatize Corruption

by Monica Lakhanpal on 8/11/2011

Corporatize Corruption: Its a win win situation for all concerned, our government stands to gain by way of taxes from the government officials which opens up the largest segment for earning tax, the officials stand to gain by...more

The Bully on the Virtual Playground

by Dinsmore & Shohl LLP on 1/14/2011

With thousands of kids spending countless hours texting on their phones and frolicking on the virtual playground created by Facebook and other social media sites, it was inevitable that the same bad behaviors affecting the...more

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