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Are Facebook And MySpace Messages Subject To Discovery?
Posted on 16 Jun 2010 by Doug Cornelius

In the recent case of Crispin v. Audigier , a California judge ruled that Facebook and MySpace messages that aren't publicly available are protected information under the Stored Communications Act, and therefore can't be subpoenaed for use in... Read More

Tags: Facebook , Copyright Infringement , discovery , Privacy , Litigation , Stored Communications Act , lawsuit , MySpace , Doug Cornelius

Pennsylvania Teens Can't Be Suspended For MySpace Parodies
Posted on 15 Jun 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

PHILADELPHIA - (AP) Two Pennsylvania teens cannot be disciplined at school for MySpace parodies of their principals created on home computers, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in a high-profile case involving students and free speech. The postings... Read More

Tags: Supreme Court , Third Circuit , ACLU , Trosch , Layshock , Pennsylvania , American Civil Liberties Union , Blue Mountain School District , Hickory High School , Litigation , First Amendment , MySpace , free speech

Hearing Over Tennessee Mosque Puts Islam On Trial
Posted on 12 Nov 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - (AP) Islam is suddenly on trial in a booming Nashville suburb, where opponents of a new mosque have spent six days in court trying to link it to what they claim is a conspiracy to take over America by imposing restrictive religious... Read More

Tags: Rutherford County , Hamas , Gary Farley , Muslim , Catholics , conspiracy , Interfaith Coalition on Mosques , open meetings law , Frank Gaffney , terrorist , Mosaad Rowash , Robert Corlew , Muslims , Jews , Northland , Rev. Joel Hunter , Scopes , Islamic law , Islam , mosque , Joe Brandon Jr. , Protestants , Jewish Anti-Defamation League , Mohammad Fadel , Deborah Lauter , Investigative Project on Terrorism , Palestinian , Litigation , Jim Cope , Center for Security Policy , University of Toronto Faculty of Law , lawsuit , Islamic Center of Murfreesboro , Tennessee , terrorism , Southern Baptists , Shariah , MySpace , Murfreesboro , Nashville , A Church Distributed

Fulbright Survey Highlights Latest Trends In Social Media, Litigation
Posted on 9 Nov 2011 by Eric Meyer

This week I plan to dedicate a few blog posts to highlighting some of the latest trends in social media and [fill in the blank]. Last month, the good folks at Fulbright & Jaworski , released their 2011 Litigation Trends Survey . The 2011 survey gathered... Read More

Tags: YouTube , social media , Twitter , Fulbright , Eric B. Meyer , MySpace

3rd Circuit Finds 1st Amendment Violations In School Discipline For Online Postings
Posted on 14 Jun 2011 by Mark Rogers

PHILADELPHIA - (Mealey's) In rulings issued June 13 in two cases that it reheard en banc, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found that schools do not have the authority to regulate students' speech that occurs off school grounds if the speech... Read More

Tags: Third Circuit , student speech , social network , Justin Layshock v. Hermitage School District , Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District , Blue Mountain School District , Litigation , First Amendment , MySpace , free speech