A mall in Cincinnati, Ohio is now requiring anyone under 18 to have a 21+ escort with them after 4pm on Fridays and Saturdays.

Apparently, security guards at all the entrances will card shoppers and provide wristbands.

Management at Tri-County Mall says it should make for a more pleasant shopping experience for their customers. Being youth, and being in large numbers unsupervised, they tend to get loud and rowdy and detract from a comfortable shopping atmosphere., said General Manager Michael Lyons.

Perhaps Tri-County Mall should also require vetting certificates from the adults, lest dodgy characters take the opportunity to offer their services as escorts.

A US bankruptcy court has said that a man committed defamation just by forwarding an email with links in it to online material that was defamatory. The court said that the man published the blog to his email recipients.

The US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas was dealing with the bankruptcy of William Perry. It examined Perry's sending of an email with links in it to a blog. Perry had not commented on or added to the links, US pressure group the Reporters Committee For Freedom Of The Press (RCFP) said.

The sending of those links was enough to constitute publication under Texas defamation law, the Court found, in a ruling which has alarmed free speech activists including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the RCFP.

[W]hen Perry 'published' the Blog, he acted with actual malice or, alternatively, with reckless disregard of the truth, said the Court, according to the RCFP. Therefore, this Court concludes that Perry committed defamation in 'publishing' the Blog to certain individuals.

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When Christian school teacher Jarretta Hamilton informed her employers that she was pregnant, she expected to have a discussion about maternity leave.

Instead, she was asked when her baby was conceived, and, after admitting it was three weeks before her wedding, she was fired.

Hamilton is now suing Southland Christian School, in St Cloud, Florida, over the loss of her job in April 2009, and for emotional stress caused when the school released details about why she was dismissed.

In a pending lawsuit, the couple also claim the school's principal, Jon Ennis, invaded Hamilton's privacy by telling other teachers and the parents of her students the exact reason she was fired.

When they let me go, they told the entire staff in a staff meeting that I had been fired and the reason why they let me go. And then they called all of my parents to my fourth-grade students and told them as well, Hamilton said.

The school, which has strict morality rules, which ban teachers from fornication before marriage, said Hamilton was informed of the values when she was hired as a fourth-grade teacher in January 2008.