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Welcome to the Student Press Law Center Podcasts.

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2008-09 School Year

  • September 2008 (14:28)
    Topics: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and student reporters.
  • August 2008 (12:55)
    Topics: Off-campus, social Web site cases like Doninger v. Niehoff; reporters' rights to record interviews.
  • 2007-08 School Year

    • May 2008 (9:13)
      Topics: Analyzing the ruling in the 'Be Happy, Not Gay' T-shirt case; photographers' access rights.
    • April 2008 (9:48)
      Topics: Ad restrictions on student media overturned in Va.; misleading photos and defamation by implication.
    • March 2008 (8:56)
      Topics: Sunshine Week '08: Access to private colleges' police records; avoiding libel in restaurant reviews.
    • February 2008 (5:49)
      Topics: Funding freeze at Montclair State; Colo. State considers selling student paper.
    • December 2007 (5:38)
      Topic: Censorship at McNeil High School (TX); Newsgathering in the hi-tech age; Update on Ponce v. Socorro Indep. School Dist.
    • November 2007 (7:13)
      Topic: Punishing "violent" student speech. Discussion of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's decision in Ponce v. Socorro Independent School District.
    • October 2007 (5:00)
      Topic: School liability for high school student media; Peek v. Clark-Pleasant Community School Corporation.
    • September 2007 (7:12)
      Topic: Understanding state student free expression laws; Oregon's high school and college free expression law (passed July 2007); Illinois' College Campus Press Act (passed August 2007).
    • August 2007 (7:52)
      Topic: What the Supreme Court's ruling in the Morse v. Fredrick "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case means for student journalists.

    2006-07 School Year
    • May 2007 (8:20)
      Topics: "Hate speech" and the First Amendment. Appellate court ruling in Novato High School (CA) case involving censorship of opinion column about illegal immigrants; ruling in Neuqua Valley High School (IL) "Be Happy, Not Gay" t-shirt case; Poway High School (CA) "Homosexuality is shameful" t-shirt case.
    • April 2007 (8:00)
      Topics: Free press rights and responsibility. Greencastle Middle School (IN) case involving student criminally charged for content on MySpace.com; Hermitage High School (PA) principal files libel suit against students for MySpace.com postings; California Supreme Court denies teacher appeal in Palisades High School (CA) case involving lewd comments in underground student newspaper; student free press state legislation updates (Washington, Oregon, Illinois, Michigan).
    • March 2007 (6:05)
      Topics: U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case (Frederick v. Morse); amicus efforts in Frederick v. Morse; student free press state legislation updates (Washington, Oregon, Illinois, Michigan).
    • February 2007 (5:22)
      Topics: State student free press legislation. Washington state lawmaker introduces first combined high school/college free press bill in country; censorship of controversial flag photo at St. Francis High School (MN); Danbury High School (TX) censorship controversy over teen sex article.




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