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A Paradigm Of First Amendment Dilemmas: Resolving Public School Library Censorship Disputes, Leora Harpaz

Faculty Scholarship

In recent years courts have begun to ponder the first amendment issue of public school library book censorship. These fledgling judicial efforts have produced a mostly inadequate analysis of the complex legal picture presented by school library book censorship. Courts that desire to intervene in censorship disputes almost unthinkingly have relied on first amendment doctrines developed outside of the censorship area and assumed their easy application to this new problem. Courts that take a hands-off attitude toward the area rely heavily on the appropriateness of judicial intervention as their central theme. Nowhere to be found in these judicial responses is …