US District Court Grants Preliminary Injunction Barring Implementation of Texas Censorship Law

Judge Alan D. Albright of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division, issued a written order granting a Preliminary Injunction barring the implementation of a vast and burdensome book ratings regime known as the “Reader Act,” ruling “that this law violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.”

The law would have required independent bookstores, national chain bookstores, large online book retailers, book publishers and other vendors to review and rate millions of books and other library materials according to sexual content if those books are sold to school libraries, and to do so according to vague labels dictated by the state without any process for judicial review.
more at: https://publishers.org/news/us-district-court-grants-preliminary-injunction-barring-implementation-of-texas-censorship-law-2/

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