A conservative federal appeals court stymied a Texas law that would force booksellers in business with school libraries to rate books for sexual content. The court’s ruling agreed with a lower court finding that the law required unconstitutional government-compelled speech. (NBC News, January 17, 2024, by Phil Helsel)
The law banned sexually explicit books in school libraries and required book sellers to set up a prohibitive expensive procedures for rating books for sexual content. (Texas Standard, January 18, 2024, by Becky Fogel)