Education Law
School District Sued by Students Over High School Newspaper Sex Story
Posted Nov 13, 2008, 04:50 pm CST
By Martha Neil
Four current and former high school students in Washington state sued the Puyallup School District in federal court yesterday, contending that their names were used without their permission in a student newspaper article about their sex lives.
Students contend that they spoke to JagWire reporters at Emerald Ridge High based on a promise of anonymity, and then were sexually harassed, mocked and jeered after the story ran identifying them by name and recounting details of their sex lives, reports the Seattle Times.
Although the Times doesn't make clear exactly what the theory of the case is, it reports that attorney Nathan Roberts of the Connelly Law Offices in Tacoma, who is representing the… Continue reading...
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