A divided federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court s ruling that a Minnesota community college was justified when it kicked a student out of a nursing program because of Facebook comments administrators deemed to be unprofessional and threatening to fellow students.
But the judges in the 2 to 1 decision disagreed on whether posts on a personal Facebook page about a course and one s classmates qualify as speech over which an academic institution can discipline a student. Central to the rationale of those upholding the college s decision was that the student was enrolled in a health professions program with a code of ethics.
More than 60 cases of COVID-19 reported at FMC Rochester
Numbers reported on the Federal Bureau of Prisons website Thursday state that 64 incarcerated men and two staff members have tested positive. 4:33 pm, Dec. 17, 2020 ×
Federal Medical Center Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in Rochester. (Joe Ahlquist / jahlquist@postbulletin.com)
After weeks of relatively few cases, the Rochester Federal Medical Center reported a total of 66 cases Thursday.
Two staff members and 64 incarcerated men have confirmed active cases of COVID-19, according to data posted on the Federal Bureau of Prison s website.
The increase comes just more than two weeks after the federal prison reported zero active cases. That zero was short lived as just a day later the facility reported an active case of COVID-19 among a staff member. By Dec. 7, the facility again was reporting an active case among the men serving sentences there.
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Myon Burrell stepped outside of the Stillwater prison a free man Tuesday after spending 18 years behind bars for a crime he says he never committed, rousing dozens of supporters in the frigid evening into cheers and applause.
Cloaked from head-to-toe in a traditional Islamic thobe garment colored all white to signify rebirth, Burrell raised his right fist in the air as he stood on the prison s front steps. Myon s free! Myon s free! the crowd cheered about 6:45 p.m. while drum beats filled the air.
The Minnesota Board of Pardons voted Tuesday afternoon to immediately release Burrell from a life prison sentence in the 2002 fatal shooting of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards, who was killed when a stray bullet penetrated her Minneapolis home.
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