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PEOPLE v. MARQUAN

No. 139.

24 N.Y.3d 1 (2014)

19 N.E.3d 480

994 N.Y.S.2d 554

2014 NY Slip Op 4881

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. MARQUAN M., Appellant. COUNTY OF ALBANY, Intervenor-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided July 1, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York City ( Corey Stoughton , Daniel Mullkoff and Arthur Eisenberg of counsel), and Christian DeFranqueville , Ballston Spa, for appellant.

Thomas Marcelle , Albany, Patrick J. Collins and Lisabeth Jorgensen for intervenor-respondent.

Morrison & Foerster LLP, New York City ( Dennis P. Orr and Cindy P. Abramson of counsel), for Advocates for Children of New York and others, amici curiae.

Chief Judge LIPPMAN and Judges READ, RIVERA and ABDUS-SALAAM concur with Judge GRAFFEO; Judge SMITH dissents in an opinion in which Judge PIGOTT concurs.

OPINION OF THE COURT

GRAFFEO, J.

Defendant, a 16-year-old high school student, anonymously posted sexual information about fellow classmates on a publicly-accessible Internet website. He was criminally prosecuted for "cyberbullying" under a local law enacted by the Albany County Legislature. We are asked to decide whether this cyberbullying statute comports with the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.

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