Anti-Teacher Facebook Page Case to Proceed

Does creating a Facebook page to criticize a teacher fall under First Amendment rights? That question may be answered soon.

The New York Times reports that Federal Magistrate Judge Barry L. Garber allowed a lawsuit by south Florida teen-ager Katherine Evans, now a sophomore at the University of Florida, against Peter Bayer, former principal of Pembroke Pines Charter High School, to proceed.

Evans filed the lawsuit after a three-day suspension she received for creating a Facebook page about her English teacher, “Ms.

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