The full Fifth Circuit will take up a First Amendment case involving a Texas library that pulled several books off the shelves that it deemed to be inappropriate, including books on racism, sexual education, transgender identity.
The conservative-leaning appeals court on Wednesday announced it would rehear the case and vacated a divided panel court ruling that largely upheld a trial court judge’s preliminary injunction that ordered the library to put the books back into general circulation. It is one of a growing number of lawsuits challenging library and public school book bans or restrictive policies.
The lawsuit was brought by ...
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