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Law Requiring Wild Animals To Wear Tracking Microchip Is Not A Regulatory Taking
By IT-Lex Intern Amber Williams (LinkedIn) Last month, the Sixth Circuit upheld Ohio’s Dangerous Wild Animals and Restricted Snakes Act, which requires certain animals to have a microchip placed under...
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Public Employee Was Disciplined For Operating Facebook News Page, Is Now...
The LegalTXTs blog reported last month about a recently-filed lawsuit that’s very relevant to our interests here at IT-Lex. The plaintiff is a “volunteer Liquor Commissioner”, and he also “works...
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Victory In Fight Against Revenge Porn: Site Creators Hit With $385k Judgment
By IT-Lex Intern Amber Williams (LinkedIn) Last month, a district court from Ohio ordered Eric Chanson and Kevin Bollaert, the founders of revenge porn website You Got Posted to pay $385,000 in fines...
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Another School Gets Into Trouble After Disciplining A Student For Off-Campus...
By IT-Lex Intern Kristin Bergman (Twitter / LinkedIn) How far exactly do those “schoolhouse gates” from Tinker reach? With social media, this line can be blurry, as we’ve recognized before. Minnesota...
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Ex-Boyfriend’s Cyberstalking Conduct Not Protected By First Amendment
After a break-up, defendant Sayer “persistently stalked and harassed Jane Doe for over four years.” Initially he’d show up at places where he knew Jane Doe would be, forcing her to change her routine...
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“No Blogging About Your Family” Is A Valid Condition Of Probation
An appeals court in New Jersey recently issued an opinion in a family law case that dealt with some pretty interesting issues concerning blogging and prior restraints. After a couple’s divorce, the...
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Top New York Court Protects The Right To Annoy
By IT-Lex Intern Kristin Bergman (Twitter / LinkedIn) Anyone that thinks that the world of academia is dull, is in for a surprise with a recent decision from New York’s highest court. As we wrote over...
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Court Upholds Law Banning Electronic Communications That Solicit Sex With Minors
Appellant Ronald Arganbright, a trooper with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, was convicted of “Lewd or Indecent Acts to a Child under 16 (Count I)… and Soliciting Sexual Conduct or Communication with...
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No Summary Judgment For Court Admin Who Stopped Assigning Cases To Attorney...
In Butler v. Edwards-Brown, the plaintiff is an attorney in Michigan, who occasionally received assignments from the Washtenaw County Probate Court. Then this happened: In April 2012, Plaintiff made a...
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Hands Off, Courts: Privacy And Anonymous Speech
By IT-Lex Intern Kristin Bergman (Twitter / LinkedIn) Rather than the traditional invocation of the First Amendment, the California Second District Court of Appeal recently protected anonymous speech...
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