Impersonation and defamation are considered crimes if printed in a news paper or in other forms of media. Facebook is wrong to protect the identities and attempt to the hide behind the free speech cloak.

Facebook's idiocy will only contribute to the impetus to further regulate the internet with laws instead of common sense.

While reporting a story in a newspaper, if the reporter impersonates or defames someone, it is illegal up to a point. It is not illegal to do so in the editorial or classified sections of a newspaper.
To compare a social networking site to a newspaper or other reporting media is unfair. A social networking site is an evolution of a bulletin board.
The only legal pursuit the high school has are civil cases of slander and personal defamation which are very difficult to prove since they have to show specific damage from what the impersonator(s) did.
And let us be honest, why is this private school willing to spend so much time and rack up so many legal bills to pursue this case? Facebook will fight this to protect the privacy of all its users.

It would be a lot easier if people weren't ignorant enough to believe FaceBook users are who they say they are.

Its wrong to impersonate someone with a profile that may appear legitimate, however if this guys is trying to sue facebook to reveal the identity he obviously has some issues to exploit, they should have just put him on a ratemyteacher forum. FaceBook does not hold responsibilites for who applys miss information, thats just ubsurd, Removing the profile was enough and if FaceBook literally lets this scam bag Catholic take there money for some noob making a fake profile, thats when ill go back to myspace.

Well, the court has ordered Facebook to hand over the information yet. They probably just want to make sure the potential evidence isn't destroyed in case this goes to trial. I'd be pretty shocked if the school actually did win the rights to that information. Furthermore, doesn't the school administration have something better to do than waste all of this time/resources over a stupid, off-campus prank?

Well, the court has ordered Facebook to hand over the information yet. They probably just want to make sure the potential evidence isn't destroyed in case this goes to trial. I'd be pretty shocked if the school actually did win the rights to that information. Furthermore, doesn't the school administration have something better to do than waste all of this time/resources over a stupid, off-campus prank?