A group of award-winning authors and Utah high school students mounted a First Amendment challenge to portions of a state law banning books in public schools containing sexual material, which they say function as a “modern-day book burning.”
The law requires local education agencies to remove books from school libraries that contain “even a single description or depiction of sex, no matter how fleeting, no matter its context, and no matter its literary, artistic, political, or scientific value,” according to a complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Utah.
A spokesperson for Washington School District ...