Idaho Schools to Get Block on State’s ‘Harm to Minors’ Book Ban

A group of independent Idaho schools won a court order that will block the state from enforcing a law banning schools from using books the state deems “harmful to minors.”

A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the state law likely violates the First Amendment because it “is overbroad on its face, threatens to regulate a substantial amount of expressive activity,” and doesn’t have a limiting principle.

The ruling reverses a decision by a federal trial judge in Idaho who denied the schools’ motion for a preliminary injunction last year.

The Northwest ...