Iowa law banning books including 1984 and Ulysses blocked by US federal judge
by Ella Creamer from World news | The Guardian on (#6W68Z)
Judge rules that law banning school libraries and classrooms from carrying books depicting sex acts had been applied unconstitutionally
A lawsuit brought by publishers and authors including John Green and Jodi Picoult has led to a portion of a law banning Iowa school libraries and classrooms from carrying books depicting sex acts being halted.
On Tuesday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the measure, writing that it had been applied unconstitutionally in many schools and that books of undeniable political, artistic, literary, and/or scientific value" had been caught up in it, including Ulysses by James Joyce, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Beloved by Toni Morrison and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.
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