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Federal judge overturns part of Florida’s book ban law, drawing on nearly 100 years of precedent protecting First Amendment access to ideas

  • Written by: James B. Blasingame, Professor of English, Arizona State University
imageSome school librarians in Florida have found themselves in the midst of controversy over complaints of "obscene" titles in their libraries.Trish233/iStock via Getty Images

When a junior at an Orange County public high school in Florida visited the school library to check out a copy of “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac, it wasn’t in...

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