Legal Precedents
Legal Precedents
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1981/80-2043
First Amendment limits the power of school officials to remove books from school libraries because of their content.
Mission is to foster First Amendment freedoms. Legal definition of obscenity.
https://www.ftrf.org/page/Glossary
Glossary of terms from the Freedom to Read Foundation.
https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/about/faq/what-is-the-legal-definition-of-obscenity
https://www.bookweb.org/news/harry-potter-and-order-cedarville-school-board
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas ruled in 2003 that it is unconstitutional for the school district to require children to receive parental permission when checking out Harry Potter books from the school library
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit decided in 1998 that removing controversial books from the curriculum because of parent complaints would be a violation of students’ First Amendment rights to receive information