Featured Articles from April 2009

''Sexting'' Growing Trend Among Teens (Wednesday 29 April 2009)
Teens sending risqué photos of themselves to friends using cell phones, called "sexting," has parents and school officials up in arms over the growing trend.

COLUMN: The Law in Real Life: Should Images of Animal Cruelty Be Protected Under the First Amendment? (Friday 24 April 2009)
Robert Stevens has become the first person to have been convicted under a federal statute criminalizing interstate trade in depictions of animal cruelty.

Punishing Students for Off-Campus, Online Expression  (Tuesday 21 April 2009)
One of the most fascinating areas of First Amendment jurisprudence concerns whether public school (K-12) officials can punish students for off-campus, online expression. The headlines inform us on a weekly, if not daily, basis of school administrators punishing students for offensive, obnoxious, inappropriate or disturbing expression posted online.

COLUMN: The Law in Real Life: Your Privacy Rights on Myspace and Facebook May Be Less Than You Think (Wednesday 8 April 2009)
On April 2 a California appellate court decision concluded that statements made on an individual's Myspace page are public material.

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