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“Revenge Porn” Law Survives Constitutional Challenge in Vermont

By: Nicole McLemore Last month, the Vermont Supreme Court upheld the state’s revenge porn law against a First Amendment challenge in State v. VanBuren.[1]While the Court declined to classify revenge porn as a new category of speech excluded from First Amendment protection, it acknowledged that “extreme invasion[s] of privacy” are likely unprotected by the First […]

Filling In the Gaps: Why Federal Legislation Criminalizing Revenge Porn Is Necessary

by: Kathryn Della Fera In the past decade the Internet has carved out a new category on Maslow’s hierarchy of basic needs: food, shelter, air, web browser. From the moment we silence our alarms to the moment we command Google to wake us up in eight hours, we are connected. At this point, it is […]