A lawsuit filed by seven Llano County library patrons against the county, the library system and the library board is going back to square one before the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
The suit, filed in April of 2021, claims 17 books were removed from the library system’s three branches based solely on the wishes of a few people who disapproved of the ideas presented. This, the plaintiffs claimed, violates freedom of speech and due process amendments to the Constitution.
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman agreed early in 2023 and ordered the books back on the shelves. But the defendants appealed that decision and lawyers argued the case before the appeals court in June of last year.
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