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Libraries Can Remove Obscene Books, Says Fifth Circuit

GianCarlo Canaparo is a legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. The controversy began when librarians in Llano County removed 17 books ...
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Fifth Circuit: Public Libraries May Select or Remove Books Based on Viewpoint

Such removal doesn't violate the First Amendment, the Court holds by a 10-7 vote, because a public library is engaged in "government speech" by choosing which books to endorse From today's majority en ...
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Whistleblower accuses Rutherford County Library Board Chair of instructing her to secretly remove books, gather patrons’ personal data

RUTHERFORD COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Whistleblower Rutherford County Library Systems Director Luanne James claims the RCLS Board Chair, Cody York, instructed her to remove multiple books from the public ...
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S. Ct. Declines to Rehear Fifth Circuit's Holding That Public Libraries May Select/Remove Books Based on Viewpoint

Here's my summary of the May 23 majority en banc opinion by Judge Kyle Duncan in Little v. Llano County, which the Supreme Court just declined to review (you can also read more about the debate on the ...