United States Eleventh Circuit

In a claim contesting the removal of a non-fiction book at a public school for containing factual errors, grant for preliminary injuction in favor of plaintiffs-civil liberties and other organizations is vacated and case is remanded where: 1) plaintiffs did not have standing to pursue injunctive relief as to removal of any of the "A Visit to" series of books other than the Vamos a Cuba (in both languages) book; 2) plaintiffs do have standing to challenge the removal of the Vamos a Cuba book the; 3) defendant-school board's action in removing the book did not violate the First Amendment; and 4) the Board's actions with respect to the book did not violate the procedural due process rights of the plaintiffs.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/05/2009
• Published 02/05/2009

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• United States Eleventh Circuit

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