Earlier, we wrote about a Wisconsin town whose ordinance holds parents liable for bullying by
their children, including certain speech. We and law professor Eugene Volokh noted that this raised
serious First Amendment issues. Now, a New Jersey judge has done the same thing
by judicial construction, by allowing New Jersey
school districts to drag students and their parents into
lawsuits brought against school districts by alleged victims of bullying or
discriminatory harassment. (New Jersey’s anti-bullying law is so broad that it
violates the First Amendment by banning non-violent speech, notes the
civil-liberties group Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.)….To Read More….
My Take - This is an onion issue....lot's of layers! I hope there will be more comments and I think this is an account that needs to be followed as time exposes the value or lack there-in of this ruling. The real problem is foundational. When a society abandons the values that made it great, can we expect it to be a better society or worse. I think we can see the answer to that question daily.
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