Toronto Radio Podcast on Cyberbullying Articles / CyberLaw Posted by admin on Dec 16, 2009 - 11:07 PM Toronto Radio NewsTalk 1010 host Jamie Hofing interviewed Elliot Zimmerman on Dec. 16, 2009 regarding whether students have a right to be mean online. A recent LA Times article reported that a Beverly Hills school suspended an 8th grade student who posted a video on YouTube with several other students calling yet another student "spoiled," a "brat," and a "slut." Read the article here. [1] The suspended student took the case to federal court, saying her free speech rights had been violated. See J.C. v. Beverly Hills Unified School District, Case No. 08-cv-03824, California, U.S. District Court (2009). Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Stephen V. Wilson sided with her. "To allow the school to cast this wide a net and suspend a student simply because another student takes offense to their speech, without any evidence that such speech caused a substantial disruption of the school's activities, runs afoul of the law," wrote Judge Wilson in a 60 page opinion. This article is from CyberLaw Info (tm): CyberLaw, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property Law & Litigation   http://www.cyberlaw.info/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.cyberlaw.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=121 Links in this article   [1] http://www.cyberlaw.info/public/righttobemean.pdf