A battle over the constitutionality of North Carolina’s law against juror harassment is headed to the state’s Supreme Court after a divided Court of Appeals panel rejected a legal challenge brought by a man convicted of conspiring to harass ...
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The University of South Carolina didn’t violate student groups’ First Amendment rights by making inquiries into harassment allegations after a rally for “free speech,” the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Aug. 16. The appeals court unanimously upheld ...
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Read More »A university did not restrict or chill students’ speech by seeking their response to complaints that they had harassed others. The students, who’d sought and obtained university approval for a campus “Free Speech Event,” met with an official to discuss ...
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Read More »When Larry Moneta, Duke University’s vice president for student affairs, visited a campus coffee shop and ordered a hot tea and a vegan muffin, he didn’t expect to get served with a side of explicit rap lyrics. Hearing some raw ...
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Read More »Buxton v. Kurtinitis (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-151-17, 20 pp.) (Floyd, J.) No. 16-1826, July 7, 2017; USDC at Baltimore, Md. (Motz, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: Although the director of admissions for a community college radiation therapist program said plaintiff applicant ...
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A sharp-elbowed tussle for control of a Chapel Hill media company has turned into what figures to be a precedent-setting battle over free speech rights in the business world. The business’s owner—backed by the local chamber of commerce—is asking the ...
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Read More »RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday quizzed attorneys for North Carolina’s largest public university why constitutional free-speech protections allow the school to require students who want to engage others in extended debate or proselytizing to secure a ...
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Read More »Central Radio Co. v. City of Norfolk, Va. (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-019-16, 24 pp.) (Keenan, J.) No. 13-1996, Jan. 29, 2016; On Remand from USSC; 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th Circuit says a city’s enforcement of its sign ordinance violated ...
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Read More »State v. Packingham (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-06-1032, 35 pp.) (Robert Edmunds Jr., J.) (Robin Hudson, J., joined by Cheri Beasley, J., dissenting) (Sam Ervin IV, J., not participating) Appealed from Durham County Superior Court (William Smith, J.) On discretionary review ...
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North Carolina’s prohibition against cyber-bullying is not unconstitutionally overbroad, the state’s Court of Appeals ruled June 16 in a first-impression decision upholding a teenager’s conviction under the statute. Robert Bishop was convicted of cyberbullying in February 2014 for posts he ...
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