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11.18.2009 11:40 am

Justice Kennedy ‘frustrated’ by student press flap, WSJ reports

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wants to set the record straight about his office’s request to see a high school newspaper’s article about a speech he gave before its publication:

His office did ask to see the story, Kennedy says, but…

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11.09.2009 3:49 pm

Group for student media criticizes principal for killing tattoo stories

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

CORRECTION: This item was originally posted with Frank LoMonte’s last name misspelled. It has been corrected.

Frank LoMonte, the executive director of the Student Press Law Center, has posted an editorial on the center’s blog condemning Timberland High School Winston Rogers…

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11.05.2009 12:07 pm

High School principal explains decision to pull stories on tattoos

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Community Section of Wednesday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch carried a short item from the Suburban Journals in which the principal of Timberland High School in Wentzville defended his decision last month to pull stories about tattoos from the student newspaper.…

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07.21.2009 4:21 pm

Judge upholds student journalist’s refusal to cooperate with police

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A federal judge in California has ruled in favor of a  college journalism student in San Francisco who witnessed a killing and took pictures of the crime scene and then refused to talk to police or turn over the photos he…

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12.04.2008 10:03 am

Legal writer says Lori Drew conviction was wrong

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Slate.com senior writer Emily Bazelon writes — in an article titled “Lori Drew is a Meanie: The problem with prosecuting cyber-bullying” — that Lori Drew’s conviction was wrong and won’t stand up on appeal. In her jurisprudence blog, Bazelon concludes:

“… wild…

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09.04.2008 10:59 am

Sex scenes in the newspaper

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Our Metro editors did a bit of an editing dance last night with the story about the anti-porn group taking on St. Louis County libraries. The local branch of Citizens Against Pornography has a list of books it says contains sexually explicit language unsuitable…

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