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"Threatening posts not protected free speech"

"Threatening posts not protected free speech": Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, "A state appeals court says a 15-year-old boy whose Web site was flooded with anti-gay slurs and threats can sue a schoolmate who admitted posting a menacing message but described it as a joke. In a 2-1 ruling Monday, the Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles said the violent language of the message -- threatening to 'rip out your ... heart and feed it to you' and to 'pound your head in with an ice pick' -- conveyed a harmful intent that is not protected by the right of free speech."

And Carol J. Williams of The Los Angeles Times has a blog post titled "Private school students' gay-bashing not free speech, court rules."

You can access Monday's ruling of California's Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District, Division One, at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 17, 2010 (boomark / email).