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Constitutional Law

Dec. 7, 2011

What’s in a Tweet?

From Twitter to student speech, what role does the Constitution play? By Rachel Wilkes Barchie of Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP


By Rachel Wilkes Barchie


With the surge in popularity over social media networking, most of us have been well-educated on the law of defamation as it relates to Twitter, with a few of the opinion that "Twitter sucks." (I used to agree, and even though I'm coming around to Twitter slowly, I still prefer Facebook as my time-vacuum, overshare medium of choice.)


So when the story about Kansas high school student Emma Sullivan tweeting about ...

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