In honor of Banned Book Week, Follow Our Courts is looking at the legality of book banning.
According to Erica Goldberg, a First Amendment scholar and associate professor of law at the University of Dayton, efforts to ban books from school curricula, remove books from libraries and keep lists of books that some find inappropriate for students are increasing as Americans become more polarized in their views.
Officials may exercise control over the curriculum of a school without trampling on students’ or educators’ free speech rights. But there are exceptions to government’s
