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Supreme Court denies online dating service petition
TEXAS -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition from an online dating service angry with a University of Texas policy that blocked it from sending thousands of unsolicited e-mails.
In denying the petition, the Court let stand a 5th U.S.
Third Circuit upholds right to conduct anonymous surveys in schools
NEW JERSEY -- Administrators at a New Jersey high school did not violate student privacy rights by administering an anonymous survey asking questions on sensitive topics, according to a federal appeals court.
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Advisers In Brief
Administrators at Shorewood High School reinstated Steve Kelly for the 2005-06 academic year as adviser of Imprints, the school’s literary magazine, after he was asked to resign last year when the publication he oversaw printed a poem about a sexual experience.
Libel & Privacy InBrief
Settlement ends 14-year dispute between man and local newspaper
ILLINOIS -- A man wrongly identified in a suburban Chicago newspaper after editors used his high school yearbook photo to accompany a story on a drug bust settled his defamation lawsuit against the paper in September.
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Professor sues student newspaper for defamation
Michael Vadnie, adviser to the University Chronicle, the student newspaper at St. Cloud State University, said the newspaper would remain "aggressive" in its reporting under his watch.
Updates on past thefts
CALIFORNIA -- Last spring three students who confessed to stealing student newspapers at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles were punished by an internal campus disciplinary process.
Newspaper Theft In Brief
More than 8,500 copies of The Daily Utah Chronicle were stolen from campus bins at the University of Utah in November in what newspaper staff said was an effort by the fraternity Pi Kappa Alpha to censor a letter to the editor about hazing.
Four face charges for stealing student papers
Prosecutors have been tough on student newspaper thieves this school year, pressing charges against four people accused of stealing newspapers in two unrelated cases -- all in one month.
Access In Brief
After two years and a lengthy court battle, the Daily O'Collegian, the student newspaper at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, obtained an incident report on a recent graduate who is now an NFL running back.