Comments on: North Carolina Cyber-Bullying Statute Survives First Amendment Challenge

By: Jimmy Wilhelmssohn

Jimmy Wilhelmssohn — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 05:56:00 +0000

The STATE v. BISHOP decision by the NC Court of Appeals was reversed in North Carolina’s Supreme Court. A team from UCLA Law headed by Prof. Eugene Volokh filed a brilliant amicus brief.

By: Jimmy Wilhelmssohn

Jimmy Wilhelmssohn — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 16:08:00 +0000

I suspect an amicus brief by top-ten free speech lawyers will be filed in this controversy in an effort to have NC’s Supreme Court grant cert. I wonder if there’s a chance since all three judges, Tyson, Stroud, and Geer, concurred. Cert in such a case is very rare. I hope this case goes to the US Supreme Court. NC’s cyberbullying law is a glaring threat to the First Amendment, and the appellate court used a bit of chicanery to “waive” the defendant’s overbreadth argument.

I concur with this observation: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.appalachian/q-Q5dP_6fwY

and agree with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor that elections for judges give us political hacks — like these three — who are toxic to the Bill of Rights.

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