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(12/06/13 11:57am)
In an opinion released this week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld broad restrictions on advertising in public broadcasting, including over-the-air student-run broadcast stations.
(12/22/13 5:26pm)
The end of the year is a time for reflection, and that's prompted us to look back at stories we've published this year detailing the legal issues facing student journalists across the country.
(12/20/13 7:45pm)
If members of the Kansas Board of Regents have a low tolerance for unkind online speech, they'd best keep their browsers closed.
(12/01/13 12:25pm)
When school censors prevent students from discussing controversial issues, it's not just harmful to journalism -- it's harmful to citizenship.
(12/05/13 11:18am)
In what's being hailed as a "game-changer" for citizen watchdogs, Arizona's attorney general says government agencies shouldn't impose fees for inspecting public records and making copies with your own electronic device.
Attorney General Tom Horne's Dec.
(12/05/13 5:04pm)
Colleges are adept at frivolously crying "student privacy!" to conceal information that might expose institutional wrongdoing, but one Kentucky college is learning that misuse of the federal student confidentiality statute can carry a heavy price.
A circuit court judge in Franklin County, Ky., is fining Lexington-based National College $1,000 per day for raising unfounded legal arguments in refusing to obey a subpoena from the state's attorney general, Jack Conway, demanding disclosure of internal college records dealing with marketing, employee compensation, student complaints and other management practices.
The attorney general's office is seeking National's records as part of an ongoing lawsuit that alleges National made deceptive advertising claims inflating the successful job-placement rate of its graduates.
(12/10/13 2:30pm)
"Inspiring." "Powerful." "Life changing." That's what young people across America had to say when Mary Beth Tinker's magical freedom bus came through their towns.
There was understandable skepticism when Mary Beth and her attorney "copilot," Mike Hiestand, announced plans for a nationwide tour to reignite young people's passion for the First Amendment.
(12/11/13 4:13pm)
Can a student be kicked out of a degree program at a public university because those in charge of his department think his ideas are outside the mainstream of his intended profession?
That's the issue presented by a just-filed case before the Ninth U.S.
(12/18/13 3:47pm)
Six years after Thomas Hayden Barnes was tossed out of college without warning for vociferously criticizing a plan to replace campus greenspace with parking garages, his First Amendment claim still awaits a day in court.
That day is a bit closer with an argument docketed at the Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit U.S.
(12/26/13 5:47pm)
Write-ups of police investigations are among journalists' most-wanted public records -- and among the hardest to obtain.
(12/29/13 12:45pm)
The sudden and mysterious death of an infant is a tragedy so wrenching that the justice system faces especially intense pressure to make certain that no killing goes unpunished.