May 16th, 2008
Court sides with MySpace in suit over sex assault:
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision to dismiss the infamous $30M lawsuit against MySpace.
The family of 24-year-old Julie Doe filed a lawsuit against MySpace after she was sexually assaulted by 19-year-old Pete Solis who met her over MySpace.
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April 19th, 2008
Man gets 90 days in jail assaulting teen met on Myspace:
Pete Solis has pleaded out to a 90 day sentence for sexually assaulting a teenage girl he met on MySpace. Solis was looking at federal charges if he did not plea. Solis will be a registered sex offender.
If his name sounds familiar it’s because his […]
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March 31st, 2008
Family seeks revival of MySpace suit over alleged sex assault:
The Texas family that had tried to sue MySpace over thair daughter’s sexual assault are trying to get the suit revived.
The victim, only known as Julie Doe was 14 when she was sexually assaulted by then 19-year-old Pete Solis. Solis had met his victim over […]
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March 6th, 2008
Teen in trouble for a LiveJournal post:
Here we go with the free speech debate again. This time it’s in Connecticut where 17-year-old Avery Doninger of Lewis S. Mills High School posted on her LiveJournal that the school administration were ‘douchebags’.
The school caught wind of this and banned her from being re-elected to the student council. […]
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February 26th, 2008
MySpace Sued Over 2006 Teen Suicide:
in 2006 15-year-old Kristin Helms of California committed suicide. She was having sexual relationship with 27-year-old Kiley Bowers. The two had initially met when Helms contacted Bowers through his page on Geocities, a free and shabby webhosting company owned by Yahoo. The two continued to chat over Yahoo Messenger then […]
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February 22nd, 2008
Teen MySpace Hoaxer’s Lament:
An unnamed 13-year-old from Ohio was expelled from Hillside Middle School in Parma, Ohio after he created a fake MySpace of Hillside Middle School Principal Jeff Cook.
The MySpace profile, which was headlined “Your Princeypal,” did not carry Cook’s name, but it included his photo and identified him as the Hillside Middle School […]
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December 19th, 2007
Facebook suing Cdn porn site for allegedly hacking its servers:
Facebook has filed a lawsuit against Canadian porn company SlickCash alleging that they tried to hack into Facebook’s servers over 200,000 times during a two week period in June of this year. Facebook alleges that SlickCash were trying to access users personal information.
The lawsuit names […]
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December 18th, 2007
Victim’s parents sue MySpace after suicide, assault by Celina man:
The family of a 14-year-old California girl known only as Julie Doe are suing MySpace after the girl committed suicide. Doe was sexually assaulted by 30-year-old Kiley Ryan Bowers of Celina, Texas after the two met on MySpace in 2005.
Their online conversations led to a face-to-face […]
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November 11th, 2007
Students Expelled For MySpace Photos May File Lawsuit:
The other day I posted a story about five students from Belleville High School in Belleville, Michigan that were expelled for posting pictures of them on MySpace posing with guns, drugs and money. Those students are now considering a lawsuit against the school.
The lawyer of four Belleville High […]
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May 15th, 2007
Pa. Coroner Sued Over MySpace Death-Scene Photos:
Northampton County, Pa. Deputy Coroner Donald DeReamus is being sued by the father of a suicide victim after the death scene photos were posted on DeReamus’ son’s MySpace.
Ryan DeReamus posted the pictures of the death scene on his MySpace with the caption ”There is no better way to […]
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May 10th, 2007
CV says it did not ask MU to punish student teacher:
Last week I posted about Stacy Snyder, aka The Drunken Pirate. She’s the woman who had her teaching degree denied by Millersville University. Originally the allegation was that the Conestoga Valley School District, where Ms. Snyder was a student teacher, threatened Millersville not to give […]
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April 30th, 2007
Apparently you deny her of her teaching degree.
Would-Be Teacher Denied Degree Over ‘Drunken Pirate’ MySpace Photo Sues University:
27-year-old Stacy Snyder, pictured at left, had her teaching degree denied by Millersville University because of said picture. She was denied her teaching degree the night before her graduation and instead received a Bachelor of Arts degree. Snyder […]
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April 9th, 2007
Pa. principal sues former students over fake MySpace profiles:
The other day I posted about Eric W. Trosch and the lawsuit he was filing against some students in regards to some fake MySpaces that were made about him. This recent article explains what exactly was on those fakes…
According to the suit, which seeks unspecified punitive damages, […]
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April 5th, 2007
Principal sues 4 ex-students over profiles on Myspace:
I apologize in advance because this post is going to be full of snark.
A middle school principal in Pennsylvania is suing four former students over a string of MySpaces that allegedly humiliated the principal.
The Hermitage Middle School principal has sued four former students over “demeaning” and “demoralizing” Myspace.com […]
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March 28th, 2007
MySpace sues ‘Spam King’ over fake profiles:
MySpace has launched a lawsuit of their own. It’s aimed at one of the lowest forms of humanity around. A spammer. MySpace is suing the so-called “Spam King”, Sanford Wallace, alleging he made over 11,000 fake profiles which would direct people to other less reputable sites.
So you mean […]
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