Federal Judge Throws Out Washington State Cyberstalking Law, Writing It Criminalizes Protected Speech
A federal judge in Washington has switch out the nation ’s 2004 police interdict cyberstalking after finding that its barriers against speech communication that is intended to “ harass , intimidate , torment , or embarrass ” were too vague and desecrate the Constitution , per theElectronic Frontier Foundation . In his ruling , United States District Judge Ronald Bruce Leighton indite that the law ’s “ breadth — by the plain significance of its Word of God — includes protect language that is not exempted from protection by any of the recognized areas just described , ” as well as that it “ criminalize a great range of non - raunchy , non - threatening speech , based only on ( 1 ) supposedly risky intent and ( 2 ) repetition or namelessness ....