Kristina Supler and Susan Stone | Jul 8, 2021 | ARTICLES
Title IX of the Education Amendment Acts of 1972 prohibits discrimination against individuals on the basis of sex in any educational institution that receives federal funding. The legal world has long understood this to mean that schools needed to offer substantially...
Ali Arko | Jul 6, 2021 | ARTICLES
No. There is no such thing as safe sexting. If you send an intimate photo or video to another person, or simply store it on your mobile device, you are at risk of having your content published to the internet without your consent. Even though the stakes for sexting...
Kristina Supler and Susan Stone | Jul 2, 2021 | ARTICLES
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned comedian Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction. Cosby was released on June 30, 2021 after spending three years in prison. According to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the prosecutor violated Cosby’s Fifth Amendment right to...
Ali Arko | Jun 25, 2021 | ARTICLES
Content that is defamatory, damaging, private, infringing, or otherwise unlawful can be removed from social media. There are a variety of tactics, both legal and non-legal, that are effective in securing the removal of harmful content. In the age of cancel culture,...
Ali Arko | Jun 24, 2021 | ARTICLES
Before filing an internet defamation lawsuit, a plaintiff should consider the Anti-SLAPP statutes and retraction laws of the state or states where the defamation occurred. Because each state has different laws, these considerations are important to analyze when...
Susan Stone and Kristina Supler | Jun 24, 2021 | ARTICLES
On April 29, 2021, we wrote about the case of Brandi levy, who sued her high school after being disciplined for posting F-bombs on her social media after she was not promoted to the varsity cheerleading team. Alas, on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court...
