July 26 - A coalition of booksellers, authors and publishers has sued Texas seeking to block a new state law that bans "sexually explicit" books from public schools.
The new lawsuit, filed in Austin federal court on Tuesday, asserts that the legislation "compels plaintiffs to express the government's views, even if they do not agree," in violation of the First Amendment's free speech protections. The standards for what constitutes "explicit" material are also unconstitutionally vague, according to the complaint.
Republican Governor Greg Abbott has said the Texas law protects children, declaring that it "gets that trash out of our schools" when he signed it in June.
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