What does Freedom of Speech mean in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? What does “free expression” mean? Is any censorship legal? If a book is removed from a library or class, does that ...

Major publishing companies and authors Friday argued that a federal judge should deny Florida’s request to dismiss a lawsuit over the removal of school library books, saying a controversial state law ...

A few years ago, I taught a high school seminar class in civics and democracy at a New York charter school. My goal for the course was for students to see that the U.S. Constitution isn’t an ancient, ...

For 30 years, the precedent set in Campbell v. St. Tammany Parish School Board court ruling has barred government officials and librarians in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana from removing books ...

First, she said, she received an email from one of her daughter's teachers asking for students to return their library books and saying the library would be closed indefinitely. Around the same time, ...

Texas county officials urged the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday to overturn circuit precedent in their challenge to a court order requiring that eight books about sex, ...

TALLAHASSEE — Major publishing companies and authors have argued that a federal judge should deny Florida’s request to dismiss a lawsuit over the removal of school library books, saying a ...

On Thursday April 3, the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries held a web seminar titled “Book Bans and Your Right to Read.” The webinar featured a lecture from UMass librarian Laura Quilter ...

Rutherford County school officials recently upset First Amendment advocates by pulling 160 more books from libraries for pending obscenity reviews by librarians. The district's new total of pulled ...

In a major case on public library censorship, a federal appellate court ordered officials of a rural Texas county to replace eight books that had been removed from public libraries, including those on ...

As 2024 comes to an end, Florida is turning a page — and then a ton more, since the state's lawyers are likely looking through court documents tied to its First Amendment fights. It's been a big year ...