Mortuary student opposing UMN Facebook policy found dead

"Her central nervous system does not function properly, and she needs electric spinal cord stimulators in her body to be able to move."

-- Jordan Kushner, attorney for Amanda Tatro, in a legal brief filed in Tatro's recent Facebook free-speech case against the University of Minnesota, as reported by the Pioneer Press.

The Pioneer Press reports Tatro, 31, was found dead this morning in her apartment.

 

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