United States Fifth Circuit

Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal of an action alleging violation of First Amendment free speech rights, by defendants' refusal to approve plaintiff's environmental science textbook for state funding, is affirmed where plaintiffs' claims failed to state a violation of the First Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/13/2005
• Published 12/13/2005

Judges

• W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, DAVIS, Circuit Judge, and FITZWATER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steve Baughman Jensen (argued), Baron & Budd, Dallas, TX, Rebecca Epstein, Adele Phyllis Kimmel, Trial Lawyers for Pub. Justice, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Scott Masur McElhaney, Jackson Walker, Dallas, TX, Clark Willis Richards, Jackson Walker, Austin, TX, for Delfattore and Ravitch, Amici Curiae., Joseph A. Sullivan, Seth Kramer, Glenn Allen Beard, Pepper Hamilton, Philadelphia, PA, Mary Ellen Roy, J. Michael Monahan, II, Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, LA, for Student Press Law Ctr., Amicus Curiae., Jonathan Bloom, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, Gregory Scott Coleman, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Austin, TX, for American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, Freedom to Read Foundation and National Coalition Against Censorship, Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lars Hagen (argued), Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.