Facebook Fatalities: Students, Social Networking, and the First Amendment

Abstract

The article focuses on the application of legal framework to assist the students and school administrators in navigating the complex regulation of off-campus cases that involve cyberbullying. It says that the U.S. Supreme Court utilizes the student speech rights under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in cases suh as the Phoebe Prince's suicide. It mentions several U.S. Third Circuit cases such as the J.S. ex rel. Snyder v. Blue Mountain School District and the Layshock ex rel. Layshock v. Hermitage School District. It claims that the impacts of the social networking sites on students, such as Facebook, is tragic or dramatic.