Sentences with phrase «cases of cyberbullying»

Illinois Representative Mike Fortner, who sponsored the Bill that amended the Right to Privacy in Schools Act, explained that the law «restricts the school's ability to access Facebook to only those specific cases of cyberbullying which are either reported to the school or were observed by school personnel.»

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Concerns have been raised that cyberbullying has the potential to cause more harm than traditional bullying due to the relative anonymity of perpetrators in many cases, larger audiences, increasing prevalence, and permanence of posted messages.

In light of all the recent cyberbullying cases, as well as the recent New York cases involving the liability of school security officers for abusing their power; Pennsylvania personal injury attorneys will soon start seeing their share of lawsuits against schools.

Nagel Rice is currently handling some of the highest profile cases in the country, including the carjacking wrongful death case against the Short Hills Mall, a cyberbullying suicide case against a New Jersey school district, a class action against the NFL for illegal ticket sales for Super Bowl XLVIII, and the multi-billion dollar RICO action against short selling hedge funds.

Reporter Jan Hoffman details how American school administrators are dealing with the pressure to intervene in cyberbullying cases despite challenging questions about the scope of their power to deal with «off campus» student conduct.

Many online abuse cases rely on the «tacking on» of cyberbullying to other, perhaps more serious crimes and, while much of what is said online can be covered by existing legislation such as the Malicious Communications Act (1998) or the Communications Act (2003), prosecution is often reliant on fitting the charge into the parameters of other offenses, such as stalking and threatening to cause violence.

program — I think it's one of the best in the country of any law firm that I am familiar with — but I am not able to take the cases of all victims of cyberbullying.

We have a great pro bono program — I think it's one of the best in the country of any law firm that I am familiar with — but I am not able to take the cases of all victims of cyberbullying.

The question in this case appears to be whether the defendants» actions constituted cyberbullying or other illegal forms of online harassment.

In fact, we are not aware of a single case where experience with bullying and cyberbullying was found to be the sole cause of an adolescent suicide.

The argument here is that, although there is a case for sanctions, schools also have a critical role to play in preventing and reducing cyberbullying through a process of awareness - raising, the education of the emotions and active participation of children and young people themselves.