Judge backs student on 'Satan' Web posting

Nov 29, 2002

A federal judge has ruled that a Michigan school district violated a student's rights to free speech and due process when it suspended him for posting "intimidation and threats" on the Internet.

School officials were concerned by content that included a passage labeled "Satan's mission for you this week." It read: "Stab someone for no reason then set them on fire throw them off of a cliff, watch them suffer and with their last breath, just before everything goes black, spit on their face."