Domestic restraining order for name-calling reversed on appeal

Court reverses another unconstitutional order keeping divorcees from complaining about each other on internet

While allowing that a family court could limit speech aimed at alienating a child from the other parent, it found restrictions on communications with other adults, or the general public, unconstitutional.

See also Volokh (2013), "ONE-TO-ONE SPEECH VS. ONE-TO-MANY SPEECH, CRIMINAL HARASSMENT LAWS, AND 'CYBERSTALKING'”.)

 

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Ex-Wife Prosecuted for Violating Order That She "Shall Not Post Anything" About Ex-Husband

But the judge threw out the prosecution, on the ground that the order violated the First Amendment.

 

 

 

 

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