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…

Tags: First Amendment, freedom of the press, media law, murder investigation, Norris Bennett, press freedom, press rights, San Francisco State University, shield law, student journalist

05.21.2009 1:43 pm

Lawsuits against bloggers are on the rise

By Steve Parker

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

What you post online could get you sued, an article in the Wall Street Journal cautions.

“Bloggers are increasingly getting sued or threatened with legal action for everything from defamation to invasion of privacy to copyright infringement,” the story by M.P. McQueen…

Tags: Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, bloggers, blogging, Facebook, invasion of privary, libel, LinkedIn, M.P. McQueen, media law, Media Law Resource Center, MySpace, Sandra Baron, slander, the Wall Street Journal

Judge upholds student journalist’s refusal to cooperate with police

Lawsuits against bloggers are on the rise

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