FTRF urges Supreme Court to reject broad speech ban

CHICAGO – The Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF), the First Amendment legal defense arm of the American Library Association (ALA), has joined publishers, booksellers, writers and other media groups in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a statute that, if upheld, would allow the government to ban a wide range of material it deems to lack value, including many mainstream books, magazines and movies.

http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/july2009/broadspeechban_ftrf.cfm

Sensible censorship: Surfing for porn shouldn't be a public library service

http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/07/sensible_censorship_surfing_fo.html

Appeal Filed to Overturn Ban in Salinger Case

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http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6672842.html?desc=topstory&

Library fight riles up city, leads to book-burning demand

A fight over books depicting sex and homosexuality has riled up a small Wisconsin city, cost some library board members their positions and prompted a call for a public book burning.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/22/wisconsin.book.row/