Overlawyered: Chronicling The High Cost Of Our Legal System

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An amorous pair of University of Pennsylvania students coupled publicly in front of (and against) a dorm window facing another high-rise dorm; several students with views took photographs, and photographs, as even blurry photographs with three-pixel-long depictions of naughty parts of indeterminate gender do, got passed around by e-mail and ended up on various websites. […]

An amorous pair of University of Pennsylvania students coupled publicly in front of (and against) a dorm window facing another high-rise dorm; several students with views took photographs, and photographs, as even blurry photographs with three-pixel-long depictions of naughty parts of indeterminate gender do, got passed around by e-mail and ended up on various websites. The University Office of Student Conduct has since charged one of the photographers with sexual harassment, which would go on his permanent record. The next question is what the university will do to the Daily Pennsylvanian, which publishes one of the photos in its article. (Jason Schwartz, “Racy photo lands student in trouble”, Nov. 30 (via Fark); Regina Medina, “Sex-act pix shake Penn”, Philadelphia Daily News, Dec. 1 (via Throwing Things)) .

Update: A commenter informs us that AP reports that Penn has dropped the charges.

Second Update: Dropping charges doesn’t end matters, of course.

[Attorney] Jordan Koko issued a statement on [the photographed student’s] behalf.

“My client is emotionally shattered from this extremely disturbing ordeal. The intense focus on this matter into my client’s identity and image has imposed exceptional emotional and psychological harm,” the statement read.

Koko added that his client’s privacy was invaded in violation of state law and her constitutional rights. He said she “will pursue all her legal options.”

Constitutional rights? Someone is unclear on the concept. (Jason Schwartz, “Photographer escapes charges”, Daily Pennsylvanian, Dec. 2). The FIRE blog is similarly unimpressed with Koko’s reasoning.

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4 Comments

  • The school has already dropped the disciplinary charges.

    http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/13305241.htm

  • Academia gone overboard….again

    All three students in this affair are wrong. The Univ. of PA though has a warped Politically correct view of the world. Or do warped and PC go together? As my wife often says- The World has gone insane.

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  • In defense of the couple who had relations, maybe they’re suffering from sexsomnia.