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Monday, September 05, 2011
Courts - "Is it Unethical for Judges to be Facebook 'Friends' With Lawyers who Appear Before Them?"
Updating these two earlier ILB entries:
Law - "Social media emerges as battleground for protected speech at work"The Volokh Conspirary here sets out the text of Oklahoma Judicial Ethics Advisory Panel opinion 2011–3, accompanied by the blog's reader comments. And here is an interesting followup by another Volokh professor.From Ameet Sachdev's Chicago Law, a Chicago Tribune blog, this long, must-read article today -- some quotes:It's easy to understand why no business would want employees griping about working conditions on Facebook. Yet, employers are getting into trouble for regulating...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 2, 2011 10:06 AM
Ind. Courts - Delaware Circuit Court adopts social networking policy
Here is the two-page policy, signed by all five Delaware Circuit Court judges. It begins:The code of Judicial conduct requires judges to avoid both impropriety and the appearance of impropriety. Judges may not engage in activities that would undermine the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 1, 2011 10:16 AM
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 5, 2011 08:59 AM
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