For 30 years, the precedent set in Campbell v. St. Tammany Parish School Board court ruling has barred government officials and librarians in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana from removing books ...
On Thursday April 3, the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries held a web seminar titled “Book Bans and Your Right to Read.” The webinar featured a lecture from UMass librarian Laura Quilter ...
Books are displayed at the Banned Book Library at American Stage in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Feb. 18, 2023. (Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times via AP) (CN) — A Florida school district was sued Wednesday by ...
As 2024 comes to an end, Florida is turning a page — and then a ton more, since the state's lawyers are likely looking through court documents tied to its First Amendment fights. It's been a big year ...
Texas county officials urged the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday to overturn circuit precedent in their challenge to a court order requiring that eight books about sex, ...
The Rutherford County Board of Education faces a federal First Amendment Lawsuit for banning books, a press release announced Wednesday. The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee along with ...
INDIANAPOLIS — The heated debate about banned books was back at the forefront at the Statehouse Wednesday. Language from Senate Bill 12 was slipped into Senate Bill 380 during the Indiana House ...
A few years ago, I taught a high school seminar class in civics and democracy at a New York charter school. My goal for the course was for students to see that the U.S. Constitution isn’t an ancient, ...
Florida’s government is arguing that school districts have a First Amendment right to remove LGBTQ books. Or any book, for that matter. It’s a contention that First Amendment experts and advocates ...
BISMARCK — A North Dakota Senate panel on Tuesday advanced a bill to remove sexual material from public libraries' children's collections, as House lawmakers took up a similar bill. The Senate ...
The Georgetown University Center for the Constitution, which leads programming on constitutional law at the Georgetown University Law Center, awarded an annual book prize to two law professors for ...