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Courts differ on teens' right to comment about school online.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-AUG-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Whether teenagers have the right to post derogatory comments about their schools online is a contested issue, and two recent decisions--one by a state supreme court and the other by a federal appellate court--have added little clarity to the debate, reaching different conclusions for different reasons.

In May, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that a student's postings about her school principal on MySpace did not constitute harassment. (A.B. v. State, 885 N.E.2d 1223 (Ind. 2008).)

A 14-year-old middle school student who had transferred to a new school posted derogatory comments on her MySpace page about the principal at the school she'd left and...

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