On August 9, 2023, the 8th Circuit ruled that Iowa's law on school library books could take effect, overruling a prior injunction by a federal district judge.
The court highlighted that while the law allows for book removal under certain age-appropriateness criteria, it also upheld the plaintiffs' right to challenge it further on First Amendment grounds.
The ruling emphasized that in assessing the law's constitutionality, the lower court needed to weigh the substantiality of unconstitutional applications against constitutional ones.
Following the ruling, 3,400 books were removed from Iowa school libraries, reflecting the law's immediate impact on educational resources.
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