Doninger v. Niehoff

Doninger v. Niehoff
Doninger v. Niehoff
Court	United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Full case name	Lauren Doninger, P.P.A as Guardian and Next Friend of Avery Doninger, a minor v. Karissa Niehoff, Paula Schwartz
Argued	March 4, 2008
Decided	May 29, 2008
Citation(s)	527 F.3d 41 (2d Cir. 2008)
Case history
Prior action(s)	514 F. Supp. 2d 199 (D. Conn. 2007)
Subsequent action(s)	642 F.3d 334 (2d Cir. 2011)
Court membership
Judge(s) sitting	Sonia Sotomayor, Debra Livingston, Loretta A. Preska (S.D.N.Y.)
Case opinions
Majority	Livingston, joined by Sotomayor, Preska
Laws applied
	First Amendment

Doninger v. Niehoff, 527 F.3d 41 (2d Cir. 2008)[1] was a United States Court of Appeals case. The case was heard by a three-judge Second Circuit panel that included Judges Sonia Sotomayor, Loretta A. Preska, and Debra Livingston.[1] The case involved a student at Lewis S. Mills High School in Connecticut who was barred from the student government after she called the superintendent and other school officials "douchebags" in a LiveJournal blog post written while off-campus that encouraged students to call an administrator and "piss her off more".[1] Judge Livingston held that the district judge did not abuse his discretion in holding that the student's speech "foreseeably create[d] a risk of substantial disruption within the school environment,"[2] which is the precedent in the Second Circuit for when schools may regulate off-campus speech[1] On October 31, 2011, the United States Supreme Court declined to grant certiorari on Ms. Doninger's appeal.[3]

Criticism

Although Sotomayor did not write this opinion, she has been criticized by some who disagree with it.[4]

References

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Doninger v. Niehoff, 527 F.3d 41 (2d Cir. 2008).
Doninger, 527 F.3d at 50.
Walsh, Mark. "Justices Decline Student Internet Speech Case, Others Await". Education Week. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
Steve Collins (May 28, 2009). "Sotomayor had key role in Doninger case". New Britain Herald. Archived from the original on May 31, 2009. Retrieved June 30, 2009.

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[Doninger-1] Doninger v. Niehoff, 527 F.3d 41 (2d Cir. 2008).

[2] Doninger, 527 F.3d at 50.

[3] Walsh, Mark. "Justices Decline Student Internet Speech Case, Others Await". Education Week. Retrieved 2 November 2011.

[4] Steve Collins (May 28, 2009). "Sotomayor had key role in Doninger case". New Britain Herald. Archived from the original on May 31, 2009. Retrieved June 30, 2009.