MONTANA -- The Great Falls High School senior who was expelled for posting photographs of female students on his Web site under the heading ''10 Hottest Freshman Girls'' has abandoned his intentions to take civil action against the school.
\n\n Kenny Volk was instructed by his principal, Gary Davis, to not take photos of the girls, and was suspended after the administration learned of the Web site in February.
TENNESSEE -- Romantic e-mails are at the heart of a legal battle over privacy at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
MICHIGAN -- A high school student who was suspended and taken to a psychiatric hospital after posting offensive comments on the Internet is now suing to clear his record, obtain monetary damages and have the school district's disciplinary policy declared unconstitutional.
\n\n Joshua Mahaffey was given a 143-day suspension from Waterford Kettering High School in September 2001 for ''assault, behavior dangerous to self and others, harassment and Internet violations.''
\n\n Mahaffey's First Amendment rights were violated, his lawyer Richard Landau said, because Mahaffey did not use school computers to post his comments, nor did he violate the school's Internet policy.
PENNSYLVANIA -- A student's claim that his AOL Instant Messenger transcript was obtained through a violation of the federal wiretap law has been dismissed in federal trial and appellate courts.
\n\n The student was expelled in December 1999 from Friends Central School in Wynnewood for an online conversation in which he said, ''stupid people should be banished or killed.'' A print-out of the conversation was confiscated from another student on a class trip.
\n\n The expelled student and his parents filed a lawsuit against school, arguing that the student's privacy had been infringed through an illegal wire-intercept.
LOUISIANA -- John L. Scott, the professor who posted an anonymous Web site criticizing the University of Louisiana at Monroe, came forward and took down the ''Truth of ULM'' site on May 22.
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NEW YORK ' An 18-year-old senior from Shenendehowa High School could serve a year in jail for posting a pornographic story involving fellow students and a teacher on the Web.
Vincent Fuschino was charged with second-degree aggravated harassment in May when a young woman recognized herself as a character in the 40-page story.
CALIFORNIA ' A lawsuit that began with a dispute about copyright infringement has ballooned into a battle that could have a major impact on online publishers.
Environmentalists are no longer the only ones working to ''Save Our Streams.'' College students striving to preserve a man-made medium have adopted the slogan to identify their technological quest.
Wanted: Teacher willing to advise student publications. Must not allow students to write about controversial issues, damage the school's reputation with quality reporting or upset students, parents or the community with the truth.
FLORIDA -- A former Killian High School student has decided not to appeal a March ruling by the U.S.