Blogging rules

Avery Doninger, 17, has lost once in court against her principal and superintendent. She doesn't plan to lose again...

She is appealing a federal judge's recent decision that school leaders were within their legal rights to remove her from running for class secretary because she called administrators "douche bags" on a blog entry she wrote at home.

This lawsuit has thrust this average student, and her school district, into public scrutiny on the Internet and in the media. It has also put her and her school at the forefront of a largely unexplored legal issue:

What power, if any, do schools have over the content students put online? (WRA)

Tim White