The Sports Blawg with the Fordham Sports Law Forum On January 18, 2012, the highly touted high school cornerback Yuri Wright was expelled from school for “sexually graphic and racial” tweets.  Wright is currently ranked 40th in ESPNU’s Top 150 Football Recruits for the class of 2012.  The Huffington Post has provided a link to [...]

Each month, Editor-in-Chief Jacqueline McMahon weighs in on topics and legal issues covered in the IPLJ.  It’s an Impersonator, I swear! The difficulty of using social media evidence in today’s courtroom The first words out of any recruiter’s mouth are often “Google yourself” or “have you cleaned up your Facebook page?”  To any job-seeker, these [...]

Introducing Equity, the new font that is “inspired by legal typography and the needs of legal writers.” The font designer wanted Equity, a serif typeface, to be every bit as space-efficient as Times New Roman, but a lot more readable–and a tad sexy. “I wanted Equity to be like a navy-blue Armani suit: a classic [...]

Each month, Editor-in-Chief Jacqueline McMahon weighs in on topics and legal issues covered in the IPLJ.  This month Jacqueline focuses on online bullying and what it takes to stop it. The Misunderstood Communications Decency Act: A Service Provider Solution to Cyberbullying? Fake Myspace profiles.  Smut lists posted on Facebook and spread using Blackberry Messenger.  These [...]

Most people think of censorship in terms of books and other forms of print media. Many are already familiar with the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week, which celebrates the freedom to read and draws attention to efforts to ban books across the country, from traditionally controversial works like Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence [...]

We keep hearing about these awesome new Facebook features, but where are they? Turns out, a trademark infringement lawsuit against Facebook by Timeline.com may be the reason behind why 750 million users can’t experience Facebook’s new features yet. “A federal judge refused late on Friday to grant a temporary restraining order to Timelines.com, a Chicago [...]

A number of consumer advocates and digital civil rights groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, have filed an emergency petition asking the FCC to review whether a government agency has the authority to close down channels of communication in the event of an emergency.  This petition comes a little over a month after the Bay [...]

In Mexico anyways. From the New York Times: “[A]ccording to scholars and many Mexicans, social media has become a necessity in Mexico, with a mission far different from what has emerged in the Arab revolutions, or in China. In those countries, social networks have been used to route around identifiable sources of repression and to [...]

Days before his execution, Troy Davis’s guilt is questioned. In this era, it is impossible to oversee the overwhelming support generated by social media and the far-reaching impact of open media. Troy Davis’s execution date is this Wednesday, September 21st, at 7 p.m.  He is set to be executed at a prison in Jackson, Georgia, [...]

The FTC seeks public comment on a proposed amendment to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Read more about it at The New York Times.