Publisher, Parents, Authors Sue Over Florida Book Bans

NBC News reports:

Penguin Random House, authors, parents and a free speech group filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a Florida school district for removing 10 books related to race and the LGBTQ community after a high school teacher complained.

In addition to the publishing house, PEN America, a nonprofit group that advocates for free expression in literature, five authors whose books have been removed from the district, and two parents whose children go to school in the district filed the suit against the Escambia County School District and the Escambia County School Board in Pensacola, Florida.

They argued that the removals violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment “because the books being singled out for possible removal are disproportionately books by non-white and/or LGBTQ authors, or which address topics related to race or LGBTQ identity.”

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BREAKING: Penguin Random House, PEN America, five authors and two parents sue a Florida school district for removing 10 books related to race and the LGBTQ community. https://t.co/THV0YuzhVk

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