School District Can’t Appeal Discovery Ruling in Book Ban Case

A Florida school district doesn’t have standing to appeal a lower court ruling that vacated its protective order in a case disputing book bans in school libraries, an appellate panel ruled.

Only board members of the Escambia County School District would have the right to appeal the protective order’s removal, but they weren’t sufficiently involved in the case to exercise legislative privilege, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said Tuesday.

“The Board cannot appeal because it lacks standing: the legislative ...