Evan Brown writes: Plaintiff’s threatening behavior toward certain faculty members of his college led the administration to monitor plaintiff’s school-issued email account. Plaintiff’s lawsuit against the school included claims for violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the Stored Communications Act (SCA), and common law invasion of privacy. The college moved to dismiss these…
Category: Youth & Schools
Lawyer: NJ student didn’t mean to spy on roommate
Geoff Mulvhill of Associated Press reports: A lawyer for a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate’s intimate encounter with another man says in newly filed legal papers that prosecutors got it all wrong and that the case should be dropped. Nineteen-year-old Dharun Ravi faces 15 charges, including bias intimidation and…
Facebook Claims It Can Use Kids’ ‘Likes’ As it Likes, Wants Class Action Tossed
Joe Harris reports: Facebook asked a federal judge to dismiss a class action accusing it of exploiting children, claiming that Facebook users’ “like” statements qualify as matters of public interest. “Expressions of consumer opinion, such as the plaintiffs’ Like statements challenged here, have repeatedly qualified as matters of public interest under the First Amendment,” Facebook…
TX: Accuser’s dad drops cyberbullying suit
Cindy George reports: A Houston lawyer has dropped his defamation of character lawsuit against three Kingwood girls he accused of cyberbullying his daughter with a Facebook video. “There’s been a settlement agreement between all parties,” Jason Medley’s attorney, Robert Naudin, said on Wednesday. “What we obtained were the apologies, a very small donation and assurances…