Friday, October 12, 2007

Law.com - Law Student Faces Disciplinary Action Over Facebook Photo of Pat Robertson

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Adam Key posted a picture of Regent University's founder and president Pat Robertson making what appears to be an obscene gesture on the social networking Web site. Key copied it from a YouTube video in which Robertson scratches his face with his middle finger.
The second-year law student said officials at the private Christian university in Virginia Beach, Va., demanded that he either publicly apologize and withhold public comment about the matter, or submit to the law school dean a legal brief defending the posting. Key chose the latter, arguing that his posting was satire protected under the First Amendment. The only real question: how did a law student at Regents find out about the first amendment?
(LAW.COM)

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