A Bethlehem man whose Facebook threats case led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision was sentenced Thursday to more than 12 years in prison for cyberstalking. Anthony Elonis was convicted at trial for ...

Now Elonis's case will go back to a lower court ... All of which is a good reminder that threats on Twitter, Facebook, or any other social media platform are not just about venting or "trolling ...

The New Hampshire Supreme Court upheld an order finding a criminal defendant violated his probation conditions and the ...

The case represented a critical test of ... the standard used by lower courts — that Elonis' words on Facebook could be viewed as threats by a reasonable person reading them — was sufficient ...

SCOTUS ruling in Facebook threats case "neither the most speech-protective nor the most sensitive to the dangers of true threats." For statements to be considered true threats, unprotected by the ...

but so-called "true threats" are an exception. The specific case before the justices involved Billy Counterman. He contacted a musician through Facebook in 2010 to ask her if she would perform in ...

The justices considered the case of a Pennsylvania man convicted of making violent threats after he posted Facebook rants about killing his estranged wife, harming law enforcement officials and ...

In the case of Counterman v ... of stalking based on Colorado's overly broad definition of a threat. He maintains that his Facebook messages were not intended to cause Whalen fear or psychological ...

The man at the center of a Supreme Court case about posting threats on Facebook has caught the attention of U.S. probation officials for more recent comments he allegedly made about cross burning ...

An attempt to get the case against two Marana High School graduates who posted some questionable comments on Facebook dismissed ... because there was no "true threat." The teens were simply ...