| Lawsuit against Facebook page administrator heads to jury trial Athens Messenger (subscription required): Andrew Geronimo, lecturer in law and director of the law school’s First Amendment Clinic, discussed the clinic’s pro bono defense of a Facebook group who spoke out against a local government in Southeast Ohio. “Because these issues of nepotism were ‘fair game for concern and commentary in Nelsonville,’ and because (the plaintiff) could produce no evidence that (the defendant) maliciously exceeded the boundaries of protected speech in making his comments, (the) defamation claim had to be dismissed as a matter of Ohio law,” he said. |
