Fishing Community Mayor, Top Officials Off the Hook in Retaliation Claims
The mayor and other city officials in the fishing community of Gloucester, Massachusetts are protected under qualified immunity against claims by the city’s harbormaster that they violated his First Amendment rights. The harbormaster sued the mayor, city solicitor, chief administrative officer and human resources officer for allegedly violating his free speech rights when they retaliated […]
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Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Targeting Books & Librarians
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Google-News-Wire
- August 2, 2023
- ACLU
- ACLU of Arkansas
- American Booksellers Association
- American Library Association
- arkansas
- Arkansas Attorney General
- Arkansas Law
- Association of American Publishers
- Book banning
- book bans
- Donald Trump
- Eureka Springs Library
- Fayetteville Library
- First Amendment Rights
- indiana
- Iowa
- Judge Timothy L. Brooks
- Law
- LGBTQ+ Themes
- News
- politics
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- Texas
A federal judge in Arkansas temporarily stopped a new law in the state that would have authorized criminal prosecution of librarians and bookstores who provide juveniles with “harmful” materials, the Associated Press reports. Judge Timothy L. Brooks enjoined the law, which would have constructed a new process for contesting library materials for relocation to locations […]
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