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Sotomayor Ruled Against a Blogger PDF Print E-mail
Written by Adam Bitely   
Thursday, 28 May 2009 17:58

Look's like Obama's new pick has some history in ruling against freedom of speech on blogs.

This gem comes from NBC:

President Barack Obama’s nominee to fill a Supreme Court vacancy has yet another tie to Connecticut. She sided against a student in the infamous “douche bag” case, and that has upset some free-speech advocates.

Sotomayor joined two other judges from the 2nd Circuit in ruling that the student’s off-campus blog remarks created a “foreseeable risk of substantial disruption” at the student’s high school and that the teenager was not entitled to a preliminary injunction reversing a disciplinary action against her, Education Week reports.

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A Tasting
written by Libertariot, May 28, 2009
This is a small taste of what we have coming. Thank you Barack for choosing someone who could care nothing about civil liberties.
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Free Speech
written by Bob in Kentucky, May 28, 2009
Dimply put, here is what to expect from Sonia Soto: What she says is free speech is what will be determined as free speech. She is going to be the central "commie" planner of free speech. Great...
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Idiocy
written by RB, May 28, 2009
I wonder why most Americans are not outraged about this appointment. I am yet to hear a massive outcry over this truly backwards nomination. The sad thing is, it is backwards purely on its face. Everyone should be in an uproar. Is it that people are still scared of being called a racist?
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You are really stretching it here.
written by Lynn Green, May 28, 2009
A lawsuit filed on behalf of the student, Avery Doninger, alleged that she was barred from serving in a student office because of derogatory comments she wrote about school officials on a Web blogging site.
The courts have always ruled that students do NOThave the same rights of self-expression in school that adults have in the rest of society. The basic idea is that schools have a responsibility to maintain an orderly environment. The school officials felt that a student who had such a contempt for school administrators should not be a part of student government, and barred her from holding a student government office. The student wanted an injunction, the court refused.

I think that this is a tempest in a teapot, and if this is the best you can do, then you don't have much of a case.
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Wrong
written by Libertariot, May 29, 2009
Lynn, sorry, but you are wrong. This is only the beginning and a lot more is coming out. So, the best we can do is yet to come!
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