Dan Fletcher of Time writes about a case reported here earlier this week: Northwestern University is dealing with a class project that may have become too successful. From 2003 to 2006, students at the university’s Medill School of Journalism investigated the evidence surrounding the murder conviction of Anthony McKinney, who was sentenced to life in…
Category: Youth & Schools
Ex-Yale students settle internet AutoAdmit defamation lawsuit
Edmund H. Mahony reports: Two former Yale University law school students have quietly settled a high-profile lawsuit they brought against about two dozen anonymous authors who the students said defamed and threatened them by posting malicious falsehoods on an Internet message board. The terms under which the suit was resolved are confidential, and lawyers representing…
Northwestern journalism students fight subpoenas
The Student Press Law Center reports: Journalism students working on the Medill Innocence Project at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism are fighting subpoenas requesting their grades, off-the-record interviews, electronic communications, notes, course syllabi, grading criteria for the course and receipts for expenses that students incurred for their investigation of the case of Anthony McKinney,…
Ohio high court hears online communications case
Julie Carr Smyth of Associated Press reports: Booksellers, video game dealers, newspaper publishers and other critics of an online child protection law encountered skepticism from state Supreme Court justices Tuesday for their free-speech arguments. A coalition led by the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression has challenged laws throughout the country aimed at protecting children…