Reuters - A federal appeals court panel on Thursday ordered that
eight of 17 books that had been removed from a Texas library's shelves
over conservatives' complaints that they were inappropriate must be
returned.The
New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel said in a 2-1
ruling that partially upheld a lower court's injunction that the
library in the small town of Llano had infringed on defendants' First
Amendment rights to information by removing some of the books.
Nine
of the books, however, can remain off library shelves pending the final
outcome of the appeal, because one judge found they were not removed
because of any ideas or viewpoints they contained, but because they were
focused on "juvenile, flatulent humor.""Government
actors may not remove books from a public library with the intent to
deprive patrons of access to ideas with which they may disagree," Judge
Jacques Wiener wrote in the majority opinion.
Yes Magazine - Since 2021, PEN America has recorded nearly 6,000 cases of book
bannings—a staggering number on the rise. In just the first half of the
2022–’23 school year, PEN America saw a 28% increase in bans compared to
the previous six months. A striking 36% of bans targeted books written
for and by the LGBTQ community.
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