Teacher's Appeal Goes to High Court: Zellner Wants to Block Release of Adult Images That Got Him Fired
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By Tom Kertscher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Dec. 12--The state Supreme Court will decide whether a fired teacher can keep secret the "adult images" that the Cedarburg School Board has cited as a reason for refusing to give him his job back.
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WASHINGTON -- A journalism professor sued the government yesterday to force the Defense Department to release pictures of the flag-draped coffins of soldiers arriving in the United States from wars overseas.
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Two civil liberties groups sued in federal court Wednesday to remove a picture of Jesus that has hung in a high school for more than 30 years.
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An elementary school teacher who says she was fired for talking to her students about peace activism has appealed her dismissal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Mouse-trapped Comment Substitute teacher Julie Amero faces up to 40 years in prison for exposing kids to porn using a classroom computer, but the facts strongly suggest that she was wrongfully convicted. Many issues remain, from the need for an independent computer forensics investigation and the presence of spyware and adware on the machine, to bad or incomplete legal work on both sides of this criminal case.â¦
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Academic freedom has never completely protected professors who make unpopular statements. One was fired in 1960 for suggesting that premarital sex among students could be a good thing. Three decades later, a department chair was demoted for saying a Jewish conspiracy denigrated blacks in the movies.
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Putting its recent ruling on student speech into practice, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected a school district's appeal of a ruling that it violated a student's rights by censoring his anti-Bush T-shirt.
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A union says a school head may appeal against a teaching ban after he was jailed for dangerous driving.
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider the case of a former Phoenix, Ariz., high school teacher sentenced to 200 years in prison for possessing child pornography.
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US Supreme Court takes up the case of a man convicted of trying to distribute make-believe porn.
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The Supreme Court said it would rule on an appeal by movie and record companies, headed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, that say they should be able to sue the file-sharing services, Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Inc. -The Washington Post
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A Pennsylvania law requiring Internet service providers (ISPs) to block Web sites the state&#39;s prosecuting attorneys deem to be child pornography has been reversed
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Mar. 11--The Julie Amero case cries out for independent review.   The 40-year-old substitute teacher from Windham was convicted two months ago of exposing seventh-graders to pornography on a classroom computer.
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The 6th Circuit tosses out federal law saying Americans taking naughty digital photos of themselves and a willing adult partner must make those images available for the attorney general's perusal -- or to go prison for up to five years.
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A broad list of copyright owners, artists, law professors and state attorneys general on Monday asked the US Supreme Court to hear a controversial case on the legality of file-swapping software.
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Officials from a suburban Massachusetts school district asked a federal judge Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two couples who claim their parental rights were violated when homosexuality was discussed in their children's classrooms.
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'This is not about First Amendment rights, it is about protecting children' The world's largest porn studio says that Google and Yahoo! should "erect stronger barriers" to keep porn away from the world's children.â¦