Courts (Finally) Starting to Rule on Social Networking Employment Cases
George Lenard, one of the foremost experts on employment law issues as they pertain to social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, just posted a detailed and very interesting analysis of a recently decided court case in which a federal district (trial) court ruled that a school district's non-renewal of a teacher's contract was lawful due to his activities on MySpace.
In a nutshell, the teacher created a number of MySpace pages including some under aliases. He posted nude photos of men to those pages and engaged in on-line communications with his high school students in a manner that the court felt was more akin to peer-to-peer than student-to-teacher communications. He was warned by his employer to stop but didn't. Intrigued? Check out George's Employment Blawg.
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