A lawyer for Texas booksellers urged a federal appeals court to find unconstitutional a state law’s provisions requiring them to assign sex-content ratings for titles sold to public schools.
A panel on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit didn’t clearly indicate at arguments Wednesday how they will rule on H.B. 900, the Restricting Explicit and Adult-Designated Educational Resources Act. A federal district temporarily blocked the rating requirements in September, but the Fifth Circuit issued an administrative stay that suspended the lower court order while the appellate judges considered the case.
The judges asked attorneys for the state ...
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